BERLIN, Jan. 11 (dpa/EP) –
The former German cyclist Rolf Aldag, current sports director of Bora-hansgrohe, is clear that current cycling lives “in a completely different situation” from that of yesteryear and marked by the doping case involving the American Lance Armstrong.
In an interview with the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, the former sprinter believes that confessions like the one the Texan made ten years ago are good for “clearing the structures in the background.” “The problem I see with the confessions that happen a little bit later is that it highlights an issue that may not be current in that sense anymore. A young rider of the current generation has nothing to do with what happened then. , and can’t do anything about it,” he warned.
For the German, who confessed to doping at one point in his career when he was a member of Telekom, the fact that Armstrong was banned for life was probably “all right from a sports law point of view.” “There are rules for that and Lance had enough lawyers. On the other hand, it’s about the moral, ethical aspect, and I’m probably the wrong person to judge it,” he said.