THE Port Adelaide Football Club has expressed its disappointment and shock at Stuart O’Grady’s confession this week that he took the banned substance EPO in the lead up to the 1998 Tour de France.

The club’s stance on the use of performance enhancing drugs is unequivocal. As such, it advises that O’Grady can no longer perform his role as an ambassador of Port Adelaide Football Club.

Port Adelaide wishes O’Grady well during this very difficult and challenging period of his life.