Reda statement:
https://www.facebook.com/teamidea2010/posts/854906844583025
A special post from Francesco Reda on his experience at the #anpostras #ras and other.
Dear friends,
I do not want to dwell a lot and I will try with these lines to be lucid and putting on fire as the second leg of the tour of Ireland, and not only.
I loved this sport since little because it was a sport true and made by people who looked at each other in the face and they wanted from loyally to face open.
That world of cycling today I hesitate to find him again in a context where anyone can afford to insult me publicly, to give me the liar, the doped, of the scammer attached to the car, in fact using the affair of the failure to control to create the monster between baro of doping and baro Of the trawl.
I do not want to go back to defend myself from the charge on the failure to control, failure to control only of urine (because the blood that I took me instead), As the controllers showed up late to a few minutes from the departure of GP Camaiore, for a check out competition, after that I had already carried it out.
I have provided all the documentation to the authorities judgmental sports and my arguments have not been discarded, so much so that my suspension was adjourned.
I know what I have done really wrong in my work, as well as all the men in them, but I certainly cannot accept for my personal dignity to be considered a "cheater", A Baro, like the pillory on social is judging me.
For what has happened to the tour of Ireland:
I suffered a blowout to little more than 10 miles from the finish line as other comrades and other members of the group. Fortunately, there has been a place immediately at my side a generous teammate like David Viganò That I spent the wheel, wheel that we unfortunately mounted too much of a hurry. I took a left and right away I have warned you problems because the wheel was braking. At that point I assisted the flagship from where the mechanic has tried to widen the Grip of the brakes.
I had to do the next hill with a relationship impossible.
None of the jury has intervened in the race as of Norma to discern a my eventual infringement, that was supposed to be noticed by people along the way and by many colleagues and employees who were present at that stage.
With the blowout, and the accident mechanic I would have lost the shirt if anything, but I would have stayed second in the charts.
Get a tow was insane and, let me also, illogical, saw the advantage on the third in the charts.
I managed to get back on the head of the race, as well as viganó that has arrived even third, while I crossed the finish line in sixth position.
Just at the time of the awards ceremony, I discovered that the jury, on the basis of the testimony of a subject better not specified, I had ousted from the order of arrival and the race.
The witness would have declared that I would have stayed hooked the flagship for a mile.
It is absolutely not true and I are backed up for about 200 meters to fix the wheel and the brakes to the better.
You can understand the anger that he caught me for this decision absolutely absurd. I have toiled atrattenere the rash. I am a cyclist professional, but I am a man too. Many if I have forgotten what it means to this. I am sick of humiliation.
I apologise to the passionate Irish for a tweet wrote in an English unlikely, that then I was told to have a different meaning from what I wanted to express. I fell the world on me for the second time, and once again I am found to butt heads with a wall of gum where the burden of proof was reversed.
My only disappointment in that tweet merch was for the jury and for this witness mysterious stayed anonymous, to which I wish only to suffer in the course of his life a decision unjust as the one he did suffer today to me.
As always in the past, I respect the decisions of the jury, but now it is for me, we must ask ourselves if we can be driven on the basis of a testimony of a third not pointed out, I have not been able to compare. I wonder why all of this, as I wondered at his time because I was accused of a lack of control and a willingness to jump a test, when I gave every availability for the blood test, while for that of urine was unable to have already carried it out A few minutes away from a race, with the controller that showed up late.
The word of us cyclists now does not count anything. We have our responsibilities as category, There is no doubt, but so our profession is at the mercy of the imponderable and the indiscretions of a stranger.
None of my colleagues with whom I have shared a thousand battles never believe that Francesco Reda needs a trawl to win a race. All those who know me know that it is one thing that does not belong to me. I can try to exploit a trail, as we all do in particular after a blowout, but make me tow no, just no.
I put a question to the jury: because none of them he followed me after the blowout? Is it normal that a leader holes and that the jury does not pay attention to an event so important? If I had followed them and checked they could not have therefore reject me, simply because I have done what they do all my colleagues when forano or have an accident mechanic.
Thanks to the affirmation of a mysterious witness they instead could therefore reject me.
A single message I finally to all those who on the various social, strong of the courage of the anonymity or from heroes of integrity of the keyboard, they are attacking me with insults or crackpot allegations of doping and sports disloyalty: I hope not to live never what you're Doing pass to me.
Now I want to stay calm and look in the eyes of the people who know me and they want me well, primarily my son that I want to grow up proud and knowing that dad is not a "cheater". I fell so many times on the bike and I have always gotten back up. They made me fall so many times and I am always spread.
I'll do it this time too, and with your head held high.
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