The process risks clotting, heart attacks and strokes. Cycling is a sport in a very bad light, and the reason we got there is the fact that . . . the riders accepted too easily the fact that the authorities could install blood controls. Having these controls would have been a very good thing if it had not not been done only in cycling. Now there are more and more controls and the image of cycling is worse and worse. And I have no reason to believe that other sports are cleaner than cycling.
Life is full of doping.
We live in a society of overmedication. One problem has been that people in the police and justice system have seen that by opening a case they can have a lot of publicity for themselves. He's a well-known person now. Before, he was a nobody. We are being unfairly singled out.