In a press release yesterday, the International Cycling Union announced that the former sprint cyclist Erik Zabel has resigned from the Professional Cycling Council. He contacted the UCI President earlier on Monday to offer his resignation and to further express his “deep regret for having lied for so long about taking performance enhancing substances”.
Erik Zabel said that cycling is now in a cleaner era. However, he is no longer the right person to be a part of the Professional Cycling Council.
Later on Monday Erik Zabel also resigned his position as Sports Director of the Vattenfalls Classics, which is the only German race on the WorldTour.
“We spoke with Erik Zabel over the weekend. In the conversation he offered to give up his post as sport director. We accepted that offer,” race spokesman Reinald Achilles told the dpa news agency.
Zabel’s resignations follow his admission in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung that his 2007 confession concerning his abuse of performance enhancing drugs was a lie. When admitting to the use of illicit substances in 2007, Zabel claimed he had only doped during the opening week of the 1996 Tour de France. That, by Zabel’s own admission in Süddeutsche Zeitung, was a blatant lie. He had in fact doped for several years, using, among other things, EPO and blood doping.
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