Doping in Sports
Almost seven years after police discovered hundreds of bags of blood in a Madrid clinic during the Operacion Puerto doping investigation, Dr Eufemiano Fuentes and five others will finally go on trial, starting January 28, 2013.
Doping was not a crime in Spain at the time of the raids and so the Puerto six have been accused of crimes against public health.
Dr Fuentes himself confirmed in the media that he had worked with athletes from several sports, including tennis, athletics, boxing, football as well as cyclists. Officially closed in September 2008, Operación Puerto has been said to involve more than 200 athletes, but only some 50 cyclists have been named as clients. It is realistic to think that other names will be named during this trial.
All this has come about from "Operation Greyhound" (Operacion Galgo) in 2009, which is the second high-profile organized effort against doping in Spain involving Fuentes. The first was Operation Mountain Pass (Operacion Puerto) in 2006, which was mostly known for having caught out a few high-profile cyclists for doping with Fuentes' aid. Now in Januari 2013 the police arrested the former cyclist José Luis Martínez for allegedly trafficking in banned performance-enhancing substances, police said that they had found more than 300,000 doses of banned substances in a secret laboratory in the southeastern town of Molina de Segura. Substances included clenbuterol, primobolan, testovis, testosterone, proviron, growth hormones, ephedrine. This case is linked to both major doping operations mentioned before.
Fuentes made the claim that other sports besides cycling were involved. Operation Greyhound has already shown this to be the case with the World Champ Steeplechase runner Marta Dominguez being suspended. Fuentes' statement, which implies that doping was done by the Spanish national fottbal team, could hold some truth for sure. Not just with that team but other footballers and professionals from various sports (a cyclist called Manzano claimed during the time of Operacion Puerto that he saw footballers and tennis players at the clinic).
In the media we have seen numerous articles about cyclists and cycling. We as juicers know that almost every athlete on the Olympics etc etc uses banned substances. Shooters using beta-blockers. Cycling is used as a scape goat, but during the Olympics in Australia I saw swimmers sooo obvious on growth hormones.
Its time we face the truth, there is no such thing as a “clean” sport not with all that money involved. And even before that, people will do anything to win, just google.
We as bodybuilders know that pro-bodybuilders use AAS, but an enormous amount of “cosmetic “ users also take these means. Just google the historical timeline on spots doping. Its as old as competitive sport itself.
