Doping hunt from cycling now to tennis and soccer

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"For some time now WADA has made it clear that testing and analysis alone is not sufficient to expose the doping of athletes who have the support of sophisticated and unscrupulous individuals. The evidence gathered by USADA in the Armstrong case is proof of that, as it is almost entirely based on non-analytical data.

"It has always been incumbent on anti-doping organizations to undertake a more coherent approach to widespread allegations of doping, and it is not sufficient to claim that enough was done just because testing did not lead to analytical violations.

'The fact the World Anti-Doping Code only came into force in 2004 is not a valid excuse for an organization failing to act on evidence of widespread doping, and nor is the Statute of Limitations contained within the Code an excuse not to investigate evidence of doping that dates back longer than eight years."

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Operacion Galgo

SPANISH police have arrested a former professional cyclist and three others after breaking up a gang producing illegal drugs for doping in sport.

Officers raided a laboratory in Murcia, southeastern Spain, and seized 300,000 doses of doping products, a centrifuge for processing blood plasma and other equipment, a national police statement said.

A police source said the former professional cyclist mentioned in the statement was Jose Luis Martinez Jimenez who was formerly a rider in Spanish teams such as Jazztel and Comunitat Valenciana.

He retired as a cyclist in 2006 and worked as a nutritional adviser to other professional riders.

"Officers broke up a group suspected of producing illegal doping substances, steroids and anabolic substances in order to distribute them" after bringing the ingredients into Spain, the statement said.

They made two arrests in the Murcia region and one each in Alicante and Elche in eastern Spain. The four were due to go before a judge and face possible public health charges, the police source said.

The raids followed a nine-month investigation during which Spanish police were tipped off by their Swedish counterparts that illegal substances had been sent from Sweden from Murcia.

Monday sees the opening of a trial in Madrid in a major Spanish sports doping scandal known as the Puerto affair. Among the six defendants is Eufemiano Fuentes, 57, a doctor accused of being the head of a blood doping racket uncovered in 2006.

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Soccer I could recall way back AAS played a big factor do you remember Soccer player from the Argentina (Maradona) was loaded on AAS.
As for Tennis not sure what compound possible more like Anavar etc etc

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Soccer I could recall way back AAS played a big factor do you remember Soccer player from the Argentina (Maradona) was loaded on AAS.
As for Tennis not sure what compound possible more like Anavar etc etc

I believe it was amphatamine not AAS.

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Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen admits to 12 years of doping
Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen has admitted that he took performance-enhancing drugs between 1998 and 2010.

Rasmussen has already served a two-year suspension for evading doping controls during the 2007 Tour de France.

The 38-year-old was sacked by his Rabobank team and withdrawn from that year's Tour de France after lying about his whereabouts.

A court ruled in 2007 that the Rabobank cycling team had to pay Michael Rasmussen €665,000 compensation for wrongful dismissal after they fired him during that year's Tour de France for lying about his whereabouts.

A Utrecht judge ruled Rabobank had been entitled to dismiss Rasmussen from the team, but said that they followed the wrong procedure.


"I am well aware that I have cheated, lied and deceived people and other athletes," he told a news conference.

Rasmussen said that he took testosterone and growth hormones and underwent blood transfusions in an effort to boost his performance.

"I have used doping substances and methods during the period 1998-2010, including EPO, growth hormone, testosterone, DHEA, insulin, IGF-1, cortisone and blood transfusions," he said.
"I am now ready to make good and I'm ready to take my punishment."

The Dane said that he intends to leave the sport with immediate effect and will co-operate with anti-doping agencies.

"The specifics of exactly what I did and when have been given to the anti-doping authorities," he said.

"My co-operation with them is based on confidentiality, which means that I cannot disclose further details at this time. That time may come later."

Rasmussen's revelations follow Lance Armstrong's admission that he took performance-enhancing drugs during his seven Tour de France wins.

Rasmussen won the Mountain Bike World Championships in 1999 before being given the chance to try out with a professional team for a few months at the end of the 2001 season with CSC-Tiscali.

He joined the Rabobank team in 2003 and looked set to win the 2007 Tour de France when holding a substantial advantage over second-placed Alberto Contador with four stages to go.

However, he was summarily sacked by Rabobank when he lied about his pre-race whereabouts, saying he was in Mexico when he was in fact in Italy.

Rasmussen eventually returned to the sport in 2009 and competed for the Tecos Guadalajara team before moving to Miche in 2010.

He had been with the Christina Watches Onfone team since 2011

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Soccer I could recall way back AAS played a big factor do you remember Soccer player from the Argentina (Maradona) was loaded on AAS.
As for Tennis not sure what compound possible more like Anavar etc etc

The Argentine footballer Diego Maradona was suspended in 1991 for a period of two years due to cocaine use. In June 1994, one day before the last group match of the World Cup in America, Maradona was removed from the tournament. FIFA said that Maradona was caught because of using ephedrine. Maradona spoke of a conspiracy. Nothing was further from the truth. Soon became clear that the Argentine starplayer had used a mix of stimulants to lose 14 pounds in six weeks. In the same year it was announced that he was addicted to cocaine.

Diego Maradona, 1994 World Cup.

He was out of shape, overweight, and seemingly over-the-hill. Maradona, once one of the greatest players in the world, had become increasingly unreliable as a result of drug abuse, alcoholism, and overall indifference.

Suddenly, the 1994 World Cup started and Maradona shocked the world by showing up in fantastic shape. He scored in Argentina’s first match, a 4-0 demolition of Greece, and celebrated so vociferously and violently that it immediately spawned rumors of steroid abuse. After Argentina’s second match, a 2-1 victory against Nigeria in which Maradona had played well once again, the news came down that Maradona had tested positive for the banned substance, ephedrine. Maradona was thrown out of the World Cup, and a demoralized Argentina squad limped out in the Round of 16.

Result: Maradona was banned for 18 months, but the suspension was academic, as he never played international football again.

In 2011 Diego Maradona admitted Argentina players took performance-enhancing drugs ahead of the 1993 World Cup qualifier against the Socceroos.

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Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes told he does not have reveal athletes he treated in doping inquiry


The judge in the Operation Puerto doping case said on Wednesday that she would not force the alleged Spanish blood doping mastermind Eufemiano Fuentes to name the footballers, cyclists, athletes and boxers he had worked with despite a demand from the Italian Olympic Committee, which is represented at the trial, that he do so.The judge, Julia Santamaria, refused to insist that Fuentes unblock the codes attached to the 200 blood bags uncovered during raids on his premises in 2006, following the legal protocol that was established before the trial that it would be limited to cyclists only. She has also ruled that data from Fuentes’s computers is inadmissible to protect the privacy of those he worked with.

The adherence to the ruling, which keeps the trial from enveloping elite levels of Spanish sport, has frustrated the World Anti-Doping Agency, as well as sporting rivals who were hoping for evidence of wrongdoing by other athletes, particularly in football.

At the time of 2006 drugs raids it was not illegal in Spain to take drugs, but was rather an issue for the sporting bodies. Fuentes had allegedly told a prison informant when he was arrested as part of a second raid that he had information that could strip Spain of its World Cup and Uefa championship.

Fuentes, 57, has given evidence he worked with scores of cyclists, but also with other sportsmen and women on an individual basis all of whom were given a secret code.”It could be a cyclist in a cycling team, a footballer in a football team, an athlete, a boxer,” he has said. But yesterday he went further, claiming: “I could identify all the samples. If you give me a list I could tell you who corresponds to each code on the packs.”

But Judge Santamaria refused to press Fuentes directly, noting: “The request will not be made expressly.”

The lawyer for the Italian doping authority CONI, Ignacio Martínez Arroyo, immediately asked the judge to request Fuentes to identify the list. The judge once again refused, but accepted the protestations from the lawyers in the room and briefly adjourned the trial for 10 minutes.

Arroyo said: “Fuentes himself proposes to give the names and the judge refuses to ask. This is incredible.”

The only name that Fuentes revealed was that of the president of the Spanish association of cyclists, Jose Javier Gomez. Gómez has recently been appointed to a Spanish government Sports Council involved with the youth sports association.

Gómez said his involvement with Fuentes had nothing to do with doping. "It is well known that I was part of the Kelme team from 1996 to 2002," Gómez, a former rider, said. "Fuentes had a contract as the team doctor."

While he had been obliged to see Fuentes while he was in the team, Gómez denied having taken part in any activities banned by anti-doping rules. "Throughout my career I have always been publicly opposed to doping and have proposed anti-doping schemes to improve the fight against this damaging element in our sport."

Fuentes has denied doping athletes and claims he instead extracted and reinjected blood to athletes to treat anaemia or blood that was too thick.

He also denied knowledge of high levels of the banned blood oxygen booster EPO which were found in eight of 92 plasma bags uncovered during the 2006 drugs raid at his premises. “No product was ever added to the blood except legally established preservatives,” Fuentes said. “Such a small quantity [of EPO] can have no other explanation than that it was the remnants of a previous treatment.”

Other EPO found in his home was treatment for his daughter, who had cancer.

Fuentes, his sister Yolande, as well as Manolo Saiz, a former ONCE and Liberty Seguros team sports director; and Vicente Belda and Ignacio Labarta, both associated with the former Kelme team have been charged with breaking public health laws and face up to two years jail if it is proven they exposed the cyclists to a health risk. They all deny the charges.

The trial was adjourned until Friday when the judge may rule if the blood bags can be handed over to Wada for DNA and further drug analysis. They all strongly deny the charges.

Meanwhile Frank Schleck, 32, will miss the 2013 Tour de France because a one-year backdated drugs ban expires two weeks after the Tour finishes. Schleck, who rides for Radio*Shack, tested positive for a diuretic Xipamid in the Tour de France last year.

He has denied knowingly taking a banned substance.
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Australian sport rocked by doping inquiry

The use of banned drugs in Australian professional sport is "widespread", a year-long investigation has found.

The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) said scientists, coaches and support staff were involved in the provision of drugs across multiple sporting codes, without naming any individuals.

In some cases, the drugs were supplied by organised crime syndicates, it said.

Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said the findings were "shocking and will disgust Australian sports fans".

The president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, John Fahey, described them as "alarming" but not a surprise.

Announcing the findings at a news conference in Canberra, Mr Clare said that "multiple athletes from a number of clubs in major Australian sporting codes are suspected of currently using or having previously used peptides, potentially constituting anti-doping rule violations".

"It's cheating but it's worse than that, it's cheating with the help of criminals," he said.

The BBC's Nick Bryant in Australia says that in a sports-loving nation like Australia the impact of the report has been huge.

With fans asking which sportsmen and women can be trusted, it is a black day for Australian sport, he adds.


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Australia loves sport and hates cheats, and these allegations offend a strong, ingrained sense of fair play. Australians like winning, for sure, but not at all costs. In Aussie Rules, one of the country's most popular sporting codes, players with disciplinary infringements are not even considered for the game's highest honour, the Brownlow Medal. And that's the way fans like it.

Traditionally, sport has been an arena where Australia has projected itself onto the world stage. There is great pride in how a nation of just 23 million people enjoys so much per capita success. If its sporting reputation is tarnished, then so too is its global reputation. That said, two sporting codes under particularly close scrutiny, Aussie Rules (AFL) and rugby league (NRL) do not have much of an international profile.

Australia has also been in the forefront of efforts of international efforts to curb doping. The 2000 Sydney Olympics were billed, for example, as the "clean games". The news that doping is "widespread" and also that there is a link to organised crime, is therefore shocking.

In the absence of more specific details about which athletes, teams and sports are affected, fans have also been left asking which elite athletes they can trust.

Had names, clubs and sporting codes been attached to these allegations, the report released publicly by the Australian Crime Commission presumably would have been even more devastating (a classified report prepared by the ACC apparently contains them). Even without those all-important details, some are calling this the blackest day in the country's sporting history.
In its report, the commission said it looked at the use of a new form of PIEDs (performance and image enhancing drugs) known as peptides and hormones, which provide effects similar to anabolic steroids.

"Despite being prohibited substances in professional sport, peptides and hormones are being used by professional athletes in Australia, facilitated by sports scientists, high-performance coaches and sports staff," it said.

"Widespread use of these substances has been identified, or is suspected by the ACC, in a number of professional sporting codes in Australia."

The use of illicit drugs in some sports was thought to be "significantly higher" than official statistics showed, it added.

In some cases, players had been administered with drugs not yet approved for human use, the report also said.

The commission found that organised crime syndicates were involved in the distribution of the banned substances - something Mr Clare, the home affairs minister, called particularly serious.

"Links between organised crime and players exposes players to the risk of being co-opted for match-fixing and this investigation has identified one possible example of that and that is currently under investigation," he said.

Because criminal investigations are under way the report does not go into details, our correspondent says.

The Aussie rules Australian Football League (AFL) and the National Rugby League (NRL) have said they are already working with the commission.

"We've worked with the crime commission in the last week or so and information has come forward for NRL specifically that affects more than one player and more than one club," Australian Rugby League Commission chief Dave Smith said.

Earlier this week AFL club Essendon asked Australia's anti-doping authorities to investigate supplements administered to players last season.

Sports Minister Kate Lundy said sports organisations would be encouraged to establish "integrity units" and engage the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency and law enforcement agencies to root out the problems.

"If you want to cheat, we will catch you, if you want to fix a match, we will catch you," Ms Lundy said.

The report said there were "clear parallels" between what had been discovered in Australia and the US Anti-Doping Agency investigation into disgraced Tour de France cyclist Lance Armstrong.

It said the links underlined "the trans-national threat posed by doping to professional sport".

"The difference is that the Australian threat is current, crosses sporting codes and is evolving," it concluded.

Mr Fahey, himself a former Australian politician, said he had found the report alarming and that it showed "how deep this problem is".

"But I have to say I'm not surprised. It seems to be a history in sport that you'll address these issues only when something surfaces and you'll try to avoid it until that time, and that was the case in the Olympic movement with doping," he told ABC News in Australia.

"It was the case in cycling, which we've seen so much of in recent times, and now sadly it's the case it seems here in Australia."

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Might as well ban the entire sports all together! with no one to bust, there will be no need for anti doping agency as well. fucking parasites!