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 'Depressed' Camenzind upset over banned-substance charge
Posted: Monday June 28, 1999 03:20 PM
ZURICH (Reuters) -- Swiss world champion Oscar Camenzind has a clear conscience but is "very depressed" by allegations his Italian team Lampre-Daikin was in possession of banned substances, his manager Robert Ochsner said. "He is dejected and at the nadir of his career, especially because the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de Suisse did not go as he would have liked," Ochsner was quoted as saying in Zurich's Tages-Anzeiger newspaper on Monday. The allegations came last week when a sports photographer claimed he had seen a driver of the Lampre-Daikin team car dispose of a bag containing drug substances in a rubbish bin during the Tour of Switzerland. The photographer retrieved the bag and had the substances tested. Swiss Television said tests on the contents showed some of the substances were on the International Cycling Union's banned list. The Swiss Cycling Federation has opened an investigation into the Lampre-Daikin team. Camenzind denied any wrongdoing and said he had passed three drug tests during the Tour. Ochsner said: "Oscar's conscience is clear but he is suffering from what has happened, even though he is not involved at all. He is very depressed. "What should he say at the moment other than 'I'm clean?' He needs a few days to find himself."
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