Retired Tour de France cyclist Michael Boogerd, from the Netherlands, has admitted using performance enhancing drugs for a decade in an interview aired on Wednesday.
The 40-year-old, who won two stages of the Tour de France in 1996 and 2002, admitted using the banned blood-booster erythropoietin (EPO), cortisone, as well as receiving blood transfusions.
The Dutchman is the eighth cyclist from the former Rabobank team to admit doping, state broadcaster NOS said ahead of the interview being shown.
“It was for periods, mostly during training, in preparation for competitions. I also rode the Tour de France often enough clean,” Boogerd told NOS. – thenational
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