Apparently it’s the day to call for resignations.

First there was Lance Armstrong’s call for Dick Pound’s departure, and now members of the Comunitat Valenciana team have requested the “immediate resignation” of Rafael Blanco of the State Sports Council. Blanco made some comments to Spanish sports newspaper AS yesterday about the withdrawal of Comunitat Valenciana’s invitation to this year’s Tour, saying “We are not going to do nothing. We cannot practice zero tolerance and soon support a team under suspicion.”

Comunitat Valenciana responded with a statement which said, in part, “We deny the statements of Rafael Blanco where he links Comunidad Valenciana with doping practices… We ask that he present the evidence that supports the suspicion of doping before the institutions and the public opinion.”

The team called for Blanco’s resignation based on two main points: “Firstly, if those statements had been made based on data from the summary, the violation of the secret of the summary would have occurred, and secondly, if they had been made on data that are not in the summary, they must make it available to the antidoping commission or the Federation to initiate disciplinary proceedings.”