Bernhard Kohl received a two-year ban after testing positive for CERA last year. He accepted it and everything is fine about it.

Kohl won the Tour de France's mountains classification and took third overall.

"From the beginning on, the plan was to hide nothing, but instead to confess to what happened," said his attorney Siegfried Fröhlich.

It was actually nice to hear Kohl admit that "yes, I took CERA", instead of lying to everyone.

Fröhlich seems pleased to as the public do not want to hear "from medical experts ... who confirm that this athlete is the only person in the world who gets a higher haematocrit after eating streusel cake."

Or when Tyler Hamilton claimed that a vanishing twin absorbed in his system while he was a fetus has caused some of his abnormal tests. I mean, come on.

One thing is still sad about Bernhard Kohl and that's the fact that he did not tell everything that he knew. I know that he could have mentioned his doctor and probably other cyclists and athletes that has helped him in one way or another.