Alejandro Valverde: 'I never tested positive... Everyone can judge me as they like'

The Spaniard says he has nothing to regret despite serving a doping ban for links to Operation Puerto

Alejandro Valverde at the 2018 Saitama Criterium (Sunada)

(Image credit: Yuzuru SUNADA)

World champion Alejandro Valverde says people can judge him how they wish, and that there is no question over whether he has anything to regret about his doping suspension in 2010.

Valverde, now 38, was banned for two-years for his links to Operation Puerto, in which his DNA was matched to a blood bag seized from doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.

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Richard Windsor