Virginia Berasategui: ‘Every day I wonder why I dope’

The Biscayne triathlete Virginia Berasategui, who tested positive last year at the Bilbao triathlon, said this Monday that she wonders every day why she had doped in her last test and confesses publicly with regret and pain. . The severity of the news has shocked Biscayne society. As he explained in an interview with Radio Pascardi, this positive result “ends a self-destructive process that brought many personal problems”.

Now, more than a year after she claimed to be going through “one of the worst moments of her career”, the athlete wants to justify her career as a triathlete and reveals that she has started a new career path teaching her youngest children to compete in triathlons. The athlete has opened a campus in Görlitz and does not rule out competing again one day.

‘My body is ruined’

On June 26, Virginia sobbed as she read out a statement surrounded by her father, Javier Berasategui. “I’m here to show my face and ask for forgiveness. I’ve passed hundreds of controls during my career and it has always been clear that I played fairly. Now, at the end of my career, I’ve made the worst mistake of my life. It can bring an athlete to the ground,” he declared. “My body is destroyed by countless injuries and my spirit is broken by the sacrifices and demands that this sport brings,” Berasategui, then 37, said as he told his story. “The last three years have been a life without thinking about retirement and retirement. The reality is that I don’t know if I’m ready for what’s waiting for me outside.

The triathlete did not appeal the counter-analysis notified on June 14, declaring that “I know that my actions of weakness were very large. I forgive everyone who let me down, especially those who always believed in me, to my sponsors and institutions”.