{"id":349349,"date":"2025-12-15T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349349\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:37:07","slug":"former-lazkano-teammate-not-surprised-about-doping-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/349349\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lazkano teammate not surprised about doping case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lazkano\u2019s suspension covers the most successful period of his career, including his Spanish national title and a standout 2024 season. After an impressive spring classics campaign, the 26-year-old finished ninth overall at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/criterium-du-dauphine\" title=\"Criterium du Dauphin\u00e9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Criterium du Dauphin\u00e9<\/a>. That meteoric improvement apparently raised some doubts amongst other cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw him in Andorra in the summer, and nobody had seen him since Roubaix,\u201d Norsgaard explained. \u201cHe said everything was fine, and then this comes out. At first I thought it was just more rumours from the peloton, because there\u2019s a lot of that during a season, but unfortunately it turned out to be true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lazkano&#8217;s performance during Dauphin\u00e9 was a bit too suspicious, and the outcome is not that surprising for some. &#8220;I won&#8217;t go so far as to say that I&#8217;m not surprised, because I always hope for the best in people. He was also super impressive, because we were in the same weight class, and he could just ride fast. But damn, sometimes when it smells like shit, it&#8217;s shit, unfortunately. It was fine in the classics, but the Dauphin\u00e9 was probably a bit too stinky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Norsgaard also described the Spaniard as an unusual personality during their time together. \u201cHe was a very mysterious guy. Quite intelligent, interested in politics, always well informed. But also strange. He\u2019d sit in the kitchen drinking red wine with the chef for hours after dinner. He was special. I definitely wouldn\u2019t call him my friend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lazkano\u2019s suspension covers the most successful period of his career, including his Spanish national title and a standout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,192555,784,69754,39552,179794,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-349349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-criterium-du-dauphine","11":"tag-cycling","12":"tag-mathias-norsgaard","13":"tag-movistar-team","14":"tag-oier-lazkano","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}