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Testo: <blockquote data-quote="dinute" data-source="post: 5443065" data-attributes="member: 15666">CN: On the team situation, what has it been like without Paolini in the team for the second half the season?AK: He was a big loss and one of our strongest riders for the Classics. He won many big races, including Gent-Wevelgem. It was one of his top career wins and also in some special race conditions. Since I've been at Katusha I've developed and he's really helped me get results. In Milan-San Remo he was puling me to the line, so it's a loss that we don't have him. Of course you can't have people on party drugs in the pack either. We have to stay within the rules and you can't do what's not allowed.CN: Were you surprised when the news broke about his positive for cocaine?AK: I was surprised but I know that he was struggling to sleep at night and to wake up in the day. He maybe abused sleeping pills to get to sleep but I was shocked that he was taking cocaine but if you look at the guy maybe he was the type of guy who could have done this. But I had no idea before. After, maybe it wasn't such a big shock. I still don't think that he took it in the race.CN: He was on sleeping medication as well?AK: It's normal in the pack to have sleeping tablets. If you can't sleep you might have a muscle relaxer. Sometimes if you're having pain in the legs and you can't sleep. Normally we don't take but if you can't sleep then you must take it. I think he had more problems with this than others but I don't know if he took them everyday. I think he took more than other guys.CN: Have you spoken to him since the Tour?AK: Not really. He's not really good with English. He's not asked for the B-sample, so for sure he knows that he's done something wrong. I don't really know how the case is going. I don't know if it's settled. I've not heard that much.CN: On racing side, how are you going to replace him because he was such an important rider for you?AK: It will be hard to replace him because he was a legend in these races and such a strong rider. Hopefully we can manage without him and we still have the rest of the group that was here this year.Kristoff su Paolini</blockquote>

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