“Why me?” Sergio Henao has described the psychological turmoil he’s going through after being suspended by Team Sky over biological passport issues for the second time in his career.
The Colombian was taken out of competition last month after the UCI opened investigations into his blood data - as he had been in 2014 when the British team themelves noted anomalies, which studies later attributed to the rider’s stats as an ‘altitude native’.
Given that Henao’s first suspension was followed almost immediately by a career-threatening knee injury and a further 10 months on the sidelines, the second suspension has came as a new blow in a rough couple of years. Speaking publicly for the first time since being taken out of competition, in an interview with Colombian newspaper El Espectador, Henao described the ordeal.
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“I thought that this was already a story that had been forgotten about,” he said. “It hit me hard and it’s still hitting me hard.
“I keep asking myself: ‘Why me?’ There are innocent people in prison and this is the same.”
Henao explained that the situation was all the more painful given his 2016 season had begun so promisingly, with third overall at the Tour Down Under, sixth at Paris-Nice, and second at the Vuelta al Pais Vasco. There were high hopes, too, for the Giro d’Italia, which he is having to watch on TV.
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