Nairo Quintana: If I return to top races it will be a big win for Latin America
Teamless Colombian trains on while waiting 🔥f🦩or possible contracts

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nairo Quintana insists he will not throw in the towel on his professional career despite failing to find a team in the first three months of 2023 following his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:positive tests for tramadol during the Tour de France last year.
The Co⛄lombian faces an ongoing uphill battle to find a squad, with the Movement for Credible Cycling’s (MPCC) ban on its team members signing riders who test positive for tramadol arguably lengthening tꦰhe odds on his doing so.
Since March🐻 2019, tramadol has been banned for in-competition use by t🌞he UCI, although testing positive for tramadol does not constitute a WADA anti-doping rule violation.
Having taken par🌌t in the Co🍌lombian Nationals as a privateer, Quintana has been in Europe for several weeks now,🐟 training in Andorra and dealing with family business affairs, and was recently interviewed 🔥by
The Colombian insists that he has not broken any rules, saying, "the day I put a race number on my back again in big events, it will be a great victory for myself, Colombia an🅘d all of Latin A𒁃merica."
"I have not done anything wrong, I'm holding my🔜 head high," Quintana said. "I was🐈 in the Nationals and I wanted to win, that's the truth."
"I'm at a good level, we're still moving forwards, with the hope of having a race number again for the top events in the sport. The day I achieve that, it'll ඣbe a big victory, not just for myself, but for Colombia and Latin ꧑America as well."
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Having parted ways with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Arkéa-Samsic last year following his tramadol test, and after rumours that he was going to retire proved to be unfounded, Quintana told ESPN that "things remain unchanged♌ since last year, when it all went a bit✱ awry."
"But I'm still convinced that I🅺 can do something and theꩲ numbers I have from training back me up."
Quintana, who has denied taking tramadol𝐆, insists that there is nothing to stop teams from signing him.
"I've been talking to various different people, and right now any team can contract me without any problem," he said. "We have to bear in mind that som💝e already have full rosters and that makes things much more complicated."
Tramadol is an opiate pain medication which made headlineꦕs in the mid-2010s, with the MPCC having requested a ban on the drug as far back as 2013 following reports of widespread usage in the peloton.
Arkéa-Samsic is a member of the MPCC and was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:praised earlier this year by the organisation for ending his 𝓰contract. &nbs꧒p;
"In compliance with our strict ethical rules, it should be added that no MPCC member team subsequently decided to hire the Cﷺolombian rider and that this attitude seems to have become indispensabl💛e for everyone," the organisation stated.
Nine of the 19 men's WorldTour teams are members of the MPCC: A🐬G2R Citroën, Alpecin-Deceuninck, Arkéa-Samsic, Bora-Hansgrohe, Cofidis, EF Education-EasyPost, Groupama FDJ, Intermarché Circus Wanty and ꦅTeam DSM.
Quintana is keen to move on, saying, "The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France problems happened and got more serious, things got difficult and you get cross about that. But finally, I've come through it all and I don't want to fight with anybody, nor point any fingers, because what happened, h🍎appened."
Although he lost his appeal to the Court for Arbitration for S🎐port last year about the case, which saw him stripped of his results in the Tour de France, Quintana said that he will not be going back to the law courts again.
"At the moment all I want is to demonstrate what I can do well, what Nairo has done throughout his career. Now it's all about training hard, being at a good level and hope♓fully starting racing again soon."
Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The Independent, The Guardian, ProCycling, The Express and Reuters.