W52-FC Porto makes clarifications on participation in the Volta a Portugal
The team confirms its presence in a statement signed by Adriano Quintanilha.
The W52-FC Porto discovered this Monday a statement about the participation in the 83rd edition of the Volta a Portugal, as Adriano Quintanilha had already advanced.
Equip themselves for the truth and present the use of any substances in the same way that they can function as sports entities as well as cycling, as entities that make use of any substances for good, such as appreciating the use of any substances and actively with regulatory and tax authorities in Portugal. “Without the integration of suspended athletes” and confirms the presence of sporting truth.
On July 15, eight cyclists and two staff members of the W52-FC Porto were preventively suspended by the Anti-Doping Authority of Portugal (ADoP-FC) as part of the Prova Limpa operation.
The following day, the identity of six of these cyclists was known when they were prevented from equipping the Douro Internacional in the third stage of the Grande Internacional, which was eventually won by José Neve, the only representative of the continuation in the race.
Ricardo Vilela and José Gonçalves were removed, in addition to the four former winners of the Volta a Portugal: João Rodrigues (2019), Rui Vinhas (2016), Ricardo Mestre (2011) and Joni Brandão, who inherited the victory in the 2018 edition after being disqualified. , by doping, of the dragon also Raúl Alarcón.
On Friday, the organization of Volta aquim Portugal confirmed the presence of the W52-FC Porto in the 83rd edition of the competition, which takes place between the 4th and 15th of August, between Lisbon and Gaia, with the director, Joa Gomes, the screenwriter that the team is not suspended and that it could participate with other contracted riders in the new registration window, which opens on 1 August.
This Monday, Quintanilha defended that the participation of the dragons in the queen race of the national calendar “will bring a candidate race to all athletes and managers, who will know how to fight for victory on the road, honoring a club and a team that has been dominating the cycling panorama with indisputable national merit”.
At the end of April, ten W52-FC Porto runners were named defendants and the team’s sports director, Nuno Ribeiro, was even arrested, as was his deputy, José Rodrigues, during the Clean Test operation, in charge of the Research and Criminal Action (DIAP) of Porto.
“The police operation, there was a total of about 120 elements from the Northern Directorate and also from the Criminal Corruption Combat Units of Braga, Vila Real and Guarda, contour still with the collaboration of the ADoP”, detailed the PJ, on 24 Of april.
The W52 structure, historic to FC Porto for six seasons, won like the last nine editions of the Volta a Portugal, but the triumphs of its Spanish rider Raúl Alarcón, in 2017 and 2018, were also removed for “use of methods and / or “prohibited substances”.
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“Given the news published regarding the suspension of eight of its advertisers, the media that comes from yesterday52-FC known as truth and the concept of fair play, as well as the concept of substance use of the latter.
To that extent, it is actively collaborating with cycling regulatory and supervisory bodies in Portugal, namely the FPC/UVP and ADOP, in search of sporting truth.
The team will participate in the 83rd edition of the Volta a Portugal without the integration of the suspensive athletes.
The results obtained by ADOPs in recent years, with innocence of innocence in recent years, continue, however, to justify the confidence that the deposit team in simultaneous cyclists, whose presumption of innocence remains intact the preventive evidence to the contrary.
This national victory, a national victory, a competition added to all, a national victory, a team that has an indisputable participation, a victory, a national victory, a team and an indisputable participation.