By Antonio J. Salmerón
Spanish cycling great Miguel Indurain has played down the importance of the number of doping cases that have occurred in cycling in recent years, as he assured to press agency Europa press that they were "similar" in amount to other sports.
"Cycling was the first sport that assumed anti-doping controls, so all cyclists know that the results will be published, and in this sense, they have to accept that," the five-times Tour de France winner explained in a press conference in Logroño, Spain, where he sat down with the former Spanish athlete Martin Fiz and the former Real Madrid football club trainer, Vicente del Bosque.
Indurain thought that the publication of doping cases allowed to make the sport cleaner. "The controls do not have to damage the cycling image", the former professional cyclist said in addition. He also expressed his total confidence in the anti-doping fight. "There are norms that have to be fulfilled by all cyclists", he commented on the subject.
