'I'm embarrassed about what happened' says Nicki Sørensen of doping past

Nicki Sørensen (Tinkoff-Saxo) at the 2014 Dwars door Vlaanderen, in the final season of his pro career
Nicki Sørensen (Tinkoff-Saxo) at the 2014 Dwars door Vlaanderen, in the final season of his pro career (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

Former professional rider Nicki Sørensen, who is now a sports director at WorldTour team Israel Start-Up Nation, has told the Danish media that he's "embarrassed" by his doping past but says that he's now in a position to educate younger riders that it is not a path that they should go down.

After retiring at the end of the 2014 season – having won stages at the 2009 Tour de France and the 2005 Vuelta a España, riding the majority of his career for Bjarne Riis' CSC team, which was later known as Saxo Bank and Tinkoff – the Dane admitted in 2015 that he'd doped.

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