Santiago de Compostela, Spain - Former Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro was forced to undergo a doping control while on his way to the toilet in a restaurant. The 2006 Tour winner was stopped in view of other customers and subsequently required to provide a urine and blood sample.
"That is unhygienic and humiliating," Pereiro told the local La Voz de Galicia newspaper.
The incident happened on Wednesday as the Caisse d'Epargne rider was dining with friends.
Pereiro was contacted by the controllers from the world cycling body UCI at the restaurant as they had failed to reach him at his house. They suggested meeting him in the lobby of the hotel but the rider refused.
The 32-year-old broke no rules as he was present between eight and nine in the morning on the day in question for any dope test as required.
Pereiro was named Tour winner three years ago after American Floyd Landis was disqualified and subsequently banned for testing positive for testosterone.
