Ferrari issues rebuttal to alleged Astana doping claims
Italian doctor publishes point☂-by-point denial of inv💖olvement with Fuglsang and Kazakhstani team

Banned doping doctor Michele Ferrari has issued a statement on his personal website in response to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:recent reports linking him with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jakob Fuglsang and the Astana team. The post comes after Astana 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:released a statement of their own distancing the team from the doc꧅tor.
The Italian, banned from involvement in cycling for life for doping a number of athletes, released a point-by-point rebuttal to the story published on Sunday night by Danish news outlet Politiken, Danish television channel DR and Norwegian newspaper VG.
The a🅠llegations came about after a report from the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF) – which alleged meetings 🍬between Fuglsang and the doctor, as well as Ferrari's supposed presence with Astana at the 2019 Volta a Catalunya – was leaked to the media outlets.
"Once aga⛦in I unfortunately find myself compelled to deny the latest media hoax that concerns me," read Ferrari's statement on his website, 53x12.com, going on to state that he hasn't worked with Astana in a decade and hasn't been at a ❀bike race in over two decades.
"The following is my reply to the 'Secret Report' mentioned by the newspaper Politiken:
"I have not had any relationship with athletes from Team Astana🎐 for over 10 years.
"I haven't be🌳en to Monaco/Nice for at least 1꧟2 years.
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"I have never been on a scooter/motorbike in my ♛entire life, let alone motor-pacing a cyclist.
"I haven🐓't been to the Volta a Catalunya in 2019. I haven't physically been present at a single race since 1994.
"The 'Report' is based on false reports from𝓀 probable intere🔥sted parties.
"I have no base in L✨ugano, a place whereꦺ I have never been."
"I have never been convicted of doping."
Ferrari was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:banned for life in July 2012 alongside Luis Garcia del Moral aജnd Jose Martí, staff members on the US Postal team, as part of the United States Anti-Doping Agency's investigation into Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel's team.
A year later Ferrari was spotted 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:training amateur riders in Bologna, Italy, and in 2014 he was involved in the long-running 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Padova investigation, which included allegations of money laundering and tax evasion and saw 17 Astana riders linked with him. The investigation was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:closed without any sanctions the following year
Ferrari was last in the news in 2017, when he was given an 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:18-month suspended jail sentence af🔯ter being found guilty of doping biathlete Daniel Taschler. He was later cleared on appeal.
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