Dutch riders who 𒊎competed in the nineties have insisted they did not dope after being quizzed directly by AD Sportwereld.

Faced by the blunt question: “Did you use drugs?"; all the Dutch riders who were professionals between 1998 and 2005 and responded, said no. Altho𝄹ugh many gave interesting answers and indicated that they were suspicious of others using doping pro🍃ducts.

This is a selection of the answers:

Leon van Bon (40,1994-present) "No. But who believes me? Good answe🐎rs to 🔯this question do not exist.”

Michael Boogerd (40, 1994-2007) "That's really a ridicu𝔉lous question. I really have said a hundred times that I have used no drugs.”

Johan Bruinsma (36, 1998-2000) "No. But I have learned about things, out of curiosity. I was ending my career, 𝔍was just not going forward. I was shocked at how easy it was. ..... Guys who now say they knew nothing, I don't believe a word of it. Doping was everywhere. Sometimes I lay at night in the hotel awakened by the commotio𒉰n in the hallway, so you knew that a few got treatment and that they had to move, otherwise their blood was too thick. That a guy like Steven de Jongh now says that everyone deserves a second chance, well I don't know. Fuck off with your second chance. He drives a nice big car while I'm too old to climb on the bike. "

Erik Dekker (🌳42, 1992-2006) "This is a useless and unfair question. Because the honest answer of no wil🌳l not be believed. People only want to hear confessions now.”

Bas Giling (30, 2002-2009) "No, I never had that shit in my🐭 body. As a cyclist you have to face it at some point in terms of what is possible. I never actively got involved, but of course you heard things. At T-Mobile I ended up in a world where almost everything was wrong."

Alain van Katwijk (33, 2002-2007) "No. And I regret it afterwards. If you now hear everything that was in circulation, then you'll think: Gos𝐆h, there must have been something in that peanut butteౠr sandwich.”

Koen de Kort (30, 2002-present) "No. I used to ride for bad teams, where it was ultimately proved that dopi𝄹ng was used (Liberty Seguros, Astana, ed.) It was never offered to me, but when I think about it afterwards, I knew that something was going on. As a cyclist you usually share a hotel room with a teammate, at Li🎀berty Seguros, it was often Jörg Jaksche. The doctor would came to his room and he was suddenly gone for five minutes. Then the doctor would ask me: do you need something? No, I said. I thought maybe they were just talking. But now I know better.”

Adrie van der Poel (53, 1981-2000) "I'm not going to take this nonsense. Journalism has cause more than enough damage to the sport, by digging into the past. I never read any positive stories about the present. Good afternoon.ౠ”

Bram Schmitz (35, 1999-2011) "I can easily answer that question: no. The step was too large, the penaltiesඣ too. Top cyclists could have risked that, not me.”

Dutch rider♉s who have been caught or confessed to doping include: Thomas Dekker, Steven de Jongh, Jans Koerts and Mar Lotz. Despite multiple attempts, AD Sportwereld was unable to reach Jeroen Blijlevens and🐭 Miquel van Kessel.