BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Former cycling world champion Johan Museeuw admitted on Tuesday he resorted to doping during the last year of his career.
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Museeuw and six other riders must stand trial later this year in a 2003 doping case where the retired champion and the others are charged with possessing the endurance-boosting drugs EPO and Aranesp.
"I did things that I really could not do," he said in a press conference on Tuesday.
The 41-year-old Museeuw, who won the world road championship in 1996 and several one-day classics, always claimed in his defense that he never failed a doping test.
"I wanted to finish my career on a high note and I did things that really could not be done," he said. "I did things which were not 100 percent by the rules."
A veterinarian is accused of providing Museeuw and the other riders with drugs. Museeuw has been banned for two years by the Belgian cycling federation for his alleged involvement in the scandal.
