AG2R doesn't want Mancebo back

Paco Mancebo

Paco Mancebo (Image credit: Régis Garnier)

While other ProTour teams seem ready to take on the riders implicated in the Operation Puerto affair if the circumstantial evidence gathered is not enough to ban them from the sport, French team AG2R is not willing to let Francisco Mancebo race again. "I don't want the public to think that we were accomplices," team manager Vincent Lavenu told L'Equipe. "(Making Mancebo race again) is not an option for us." The Frenchman continued by explaining that the team would try to negotiate Mancebo out of his contract, and if he refused, that they could also engage in a dismissal procedure.