Mosquera: Staying quiet has been the wrong tactic

Ten months on from the announcement that he had tested positive for hydroxyethyl starch, as he rode to second place in the 2010 Vuelta a España, Ezequiel Mosquera has broken his silence to rail at the length of time it is taking to resolve his case. He has also admitted that it has been a mistake for him to stay silent for so long given some of the things that have been said and written about him during that period.

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Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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