Saiz: Fuentes is a "great psychologist"

Former ONCE and Liberty Seguros team boss Manolo Saiz has continued his emergence from a self-imposed absence from cycling with a typically bullish performance in an interview with Spanish press and radio. Among the highlights were his claim that he and everyone else involved in the Operación Puerto inquiry will be declared “innocent” and his belief that Alberto Contador will win the Tour de France this year because no other rider has a palmarès to compare with the Spaniard’s, and certainly not Andy Schleck.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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