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Julian Dean denies knowledge of U.S. Postal doping culture

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October 13, 23:36

Julian Dean, who rode on U.S. Postal Service between 1999 and 2001, says that he was unaware of what the USADA report labels "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen." In an interview with Fairfax NZ News, the Orica-GreenEdge rider believes that his own objectives as a sprinter and because he was not at that stage a Tour de France rider, may have had a role to play. "I didn't really fit into that, they had a very directed team for the Tour de France and put a lot of energy into those guys," he said. "Because I was a sprinter I would do things like the Vuelta or some of the other bigger stage races over the years, without being considered for the Tour because there wasn't much I could contribute." Dean explained that he never received orders to dope nor was he witness to the activities so detailed …