Kreuziger believes in justice after Tour ban

Prague: Czech rider Roman Kreuziger said yesterday he believes in justice after problems with his biological passport  stopped him from taking part in the Tour de France this year.

“If there is some justice, I believe there will be a happy end,” the 28-year-old Tinkoff-Saxo rider said on his website.

“On the one hand I’m relieved to see things published and handled, on the other I have no idea how long the matter might take,” he added.

Kreuziger, who finished fifth in last year’s edition of the world’s greatest cycling race, was supposed to back Spanish teammate Alberto Contador in his quest for another Tour victory.

But the team suspended him from the Tour in June after the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation found abnormalities in his biological passport dating from 2011 and 2012 when he rode for the Astana team.

“I have got used to hearing good news one day and bad news the next. When I hear good news, I stand fast, and when there’s bad news, I don’t feel down really,” he said.

“I haven’t condemned cycling, I’ve been watching the Tour and I’m in daily contact with the guys who are riding. We wrote each other yesterday,” Kreuziger added.