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Quiche
Elite Rider
Denmark
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 Posted - 08/10/2008 : 18:35:09
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Originally posted by Quiche
And on a different note, l'Equipe has now confirmed that there are only a maximum of ten of these so called suspicious tests that are still considered suspicious.
I have talked to a very well-informed French journalist today and he told me, that the reason why it wasn't a French paper breaking this whole story is because the case wasn't even half way settled yet when Gazetta and Le Soir snooped up rumours at the World Championship.
He said that to begin with they had made some blood profiles for these riders and that they were going to add more parameters to about 35-40 tests. This number was then brought down to about 23-25 tests and further down to 14-15 tests as they put in the numbers from these riders and now they are down to somewhere in between 6 and 10 tests. So a maximum of ten and possibly only six (or less) of the tests are really suspicious and will be tested for CERA.
In other words: Not surpricingly Le Soir and La Gazzetta simply jumped the gun and brought an unfounded story throwing around a lot of suspicion on innocent riders.
And what is even worse: Le Soir has been guessing about which riders could be included and for instance they have just thrown suspicion to riders who has cancelled their participance in the World Championship. Which is why Cancellara, O'Grady and Sastre have been mentioned. And I guess Frank Schleck is included because it would be an easy guess after the Puerto thing.
I'd like to take this thread back to the post I made September 30 since I have talked to the French journalist again and it seems that he was very close to being exactly right about what he said about a week ago.
Only thing wrong was that it wasn't 35-40 tests they went back to check, but 28-30 tests. I believe 28 is the correct number, but some sources are now claiming that it is 30 tests.
There were not even any CSC/Saxo Bank riders among the 30 tests to begin with, so a couple of newspapers have a lot of explaining to do!!!
We should start a news site where we write both founded and unfounded rumours about journalists. Wouldn't that be a lot of fun?
Anyway they are now down to another 2-4 tests to be done the next two days. I won't contribute to the rumour mill by naming the names, but let's just say that the two names I got did well in the mountains and one of these two did not make it to Paris. |
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CSC ATLANTA
Hors Categorie
USA
2185 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2008 : 18:44:43
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We should start a news site where we write both founded and unfounded rumours about journalists. Wouldn't that be a lot of fun?
Or we could start with the jokes.
What do you call 500 dead journalists on the bottom of the ocean? A pretty good start!
Whats the difference detween a dead dog on the side of the road and a dead journalist? There's usually skid marks in front of the dog!
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KD teammate
Hors Categorie
Denmark
5683 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2008 : 19:07:51
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Originally posted by CSC ATLANTA
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We should start a news site where we write both founded and unfounded rumours about journalists. Wouldn't that be a lot of fun?
Or we could start with the jokes.
What do you call 500 dead journalists on the bottom of the ocean? A pretty good start!
Whats the difference detween a dead dog on the side of the road and a dead journalist? There's usually skid marks in front of the dog!
The 2 famous journalists mr. R.Umour and G.Ossip today died. They lived in a paradise of speculation, but were slowly killed by the facts!
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KD teammate
Hors Categorie
Denmark
5683 Posts |
Posted - 13/10/2008 : 17:23:25
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As a small reminder, the prosecutor in Freiburg still work to investigate the T-mobile affair in 2002-2006. So far he claim to have evidence of a pharmacy making illegal supply of EPO to the Freiburg clinic, and also sufficient evidence to proof the blood doping that happened in 2006, as earlier indicated by Patrick Sinkewitz. None of the riders are being accused, since at that point of time it wasnt illegal to dope in Germany. But the prosecutor investigates wether or not the T-mobile management (Godefrot, Pevenage, Ludwig and Kummer) was responsible for systematic doping activities, that endangered the health of the riders from T-mobile.
www.focus.de/sport/mehrsport/radsport-doping-bei-t-mobile-auch-nach-2002_aid_340093.html
This week we also had some news about IOC, after they loudly had critisized Cycling for not doing enough in the doping fight. During the Olympics, IOC had 102 nations out of 205 (50%), who had not reported their whereabouts!!! You all probably remember, what happened to Michael Rasmussen in 2007, when he messed up with his whereabouts. So what will happen with those 102 nations, that didnt take care to deliver the whereabout informations??? Correct, nothing will happen at all! As we are used to see, we have one set of strict rules being enforced by UCI upon athletes in Cycling, while IOC really doesnt care to take serious action to enforce strict rules upon all athletes during the Olympics! Finaly its also great, that IOC now has decided to perform the CERA blood test on 967 blood samples, but once again it should be noted, that only 4 out of 28 sports federations accepted to let their athletes blood test during the Olympics: athletics, cycling, rowing and modern pentathlon. 
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KD teammate
Hors Categorie
Denmark
5683 Posts |
Posted - 14/10/2008 : 23:00:51
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I have just updated the doping statistic at page 9, with the three new positive CERA cases from the Tour de France, and the rider Stefano Cavallari (Acqua e Sapone), who just tested positive in an out of competition test. Looking at 2007-2008, we now have a total of 26 positive ProTour riders (4.1%) and 9 positive PCT riders. Only a total of 5 ProTour teams had no positive riders in 2007-2008:
CSC-Saxobank
AG2R
Bouyges Telecom
Francaisse des Jeux
Quickstep
Finaly I should also note, that the new U23 world champion Fabio Duarte, actualy tested positive for testosterone in July 2007, while riding for the Professional Continental Team: Serrementi PVC Diquigiovanni. UCI and the Columbian Cycling federation unfortunately "forgot" to arbitrate the case. But UCI has now on Sep.28 in 2008, finaly started a case against Fabio Duarte, and asked for the IRMS test to be performed. Until we know the final result of this test, I have chosen not to include him in the statistic. |
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CSC ATLANTA
Hors Categorie
USA
2185 Posts |
Posted - 15/10/2008 : 03:06:21
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| Today the UCI announced that they are rolling out 4 year ban for doping considered "willful cheating". This is great development, recent events show some riders will always be tempted, but it will allow much stronger penalty that will end most riders carers is testing catches them. |
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KD teammate
Hors Categorie
Denmark
5683 Posts |
Posted - 16/10/2008 : 01:32:06
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New WADA rules from Jan.2009
As explained above by CSC Atlanta, one of the new rules is, that athletes guilty of an "aggravated violation" will recieve 4 years instead of the normal 2 years. Today I took time to read the entire new revision of the WADA rules (135 pages), and I have to admit being extremely satisfied with this new revision! First of all they have removed previous loopholes in the paragraphs. Second, the sanctions have become more severe. Third, they are now making a much more fair and detailed differentiation, between sanctions for different kind of violations/circumstances. All in all, its rather good, eventhough I had still prefered lifetime for "aggravated violations" without full collaboration, instead of the stipulated 4 years.
If you have time, I recommend to read the first 95 pages of the WADA rules: www.wada-ama.org/rtecontent/document/code_v2009_En.pdf
Most important sections are of course:
* Definition of doping violations and burdens of proof (art.1-3, p.18-28)
* Disqualification of results, and sanctions of individuals/teams (art.9-11, p.50-77)
The content of those articles, define the new international antidoping rules, not only for Cycling, but for all sports. Since its rather comprehensive, I wont make a complete review of all the articles. Instead I have in this post right below, only highlighted all the important changes/clarifications compared to the current WADA rules (being in force for doping violations in 2004-2008).
All changes/clarifications with effect from 1/1-2009:
Below I have listed all the articles with changes or clarifications. Everything in italic is a direct quote. My own comment stands with blue.
Comment to Art.2.2 - about how to establish proof of "Use or attempted use":
Use or Attempted Use may also be established by other reliable means such as admissions by the Athlete, witness statements, documentary evidence, conclusions drawn from longitudinal profiling, or other analytical information which does not otherwise satisfy all the requirements to establish "Presence" of a Prohibited Substance under Article 2.1. For example, "Use" may be established based upon reliable analytical data from the analysis of an A Sample (without confirmation from an analysis of a B Sample). Demonstrating the "Attempted Use" of a Prohibited Substance requires proof of intent on the Athlete’s part. -The new part is the inclusion of Longitudinal profiling and other Analytical tests, to proof "use"!
Comment to Art.2.4 - about how to count whereabout filing failures or missed tests:
Separate whereabouts filing failures and missed tests declared under the rules of the Athlete’s International Federation or any other Anti-Doping Organization with authority to declare whereabouts filing failures and missed tests in accordance with the International Standard for Testing shall be combined in applying this Article. -New part is, that WADA demand all whereabout failures to be added between all Antidoping organisations!
Art.6.5 - Retesting Samples:
A Sample may be reanalyzed for the purpose [to test for prohibited substances/methods] at any time exclusively at the direction of the AntiDoping Organization that collected the Sample or WADA. The circumstances and conditions for retesting Samples shall conform with the requirements of the International Standard for Laboratories. -The new part is, that now also WADA by their own, can make such a request to retest samples!
Art.7.6 - Retirement from sport:
If an Athlete or other Person retires before any results management process has begun, the Anti-Doping Organization which would have had results management jurisdiction over the Athlete or other Person at the time the Athlete or other Person committed an anti-doping rule violation, has jurisdiction to conduct results management. -Thereby preventing "guilty" persons to try and escape a doping conviction, by just retirering!
Art.10.3.3 - Ineligibility for violations of Article 2.4 (Whereabouts Filing Failures and/or Missed Tests):
Ineligibility shall be at a minimum one (1) year and at a maximum two (2) years based on the Athlete’s degree of fault. The sanction under Article 10.3.3 shall be two years where all three filing failures or missed tests are inexcusable. Otherwise, the sanction shall be assessed in the range of two years to one year, based on the circumstances of the case. -Earlier WADA allowed each sports federation to formulate own rules, now its specified for all federations, that 3 failures or missed tests within a roling period of 18 months, shall result in Ineligibility of 1-2 years!
Art.10.5.3 -Substantial Assistance in Discovering or Establishing an AntiDoping Rule Violation by another person:
The extent to which the otherwise applicable period of Ineligibility may be suspended, shall be based on the seriousness of the anti-doping rule violation committed by the Athlete or other Person, and the significance of the Substantial Assistance provided by the Athlete or other Person to the effort to eliminate doping in sport. No more than three-quarters of the otherwise applicable period of Ineligibility may be suspended. If the otherwise applicable period of Ineligibility is a lifetime, the non-suspended period under this section must be no less than eight (8) years. -Earlier a full collaboration could give max.50% reduction, this has now been increased to max.75% reduction!
Factors to be considered in assessing the importance of the Substantial Assistance would include, for example, the number of individuals implicated, the status of those individuals in the sport, whether a scheme involving Trafficking under Article 2.7 or administration under Article 2.8 is involved and whether the violation involved a substance or method which is not readily detectible in Testing. The maximum suspension of the Ineligibility period shall only be applied in very exceptional cases. An additional factor to be considered in connection with the seriousness of the anti-doping rule violation is any performance-enhancing benefit which the Person providing Substantial Assistance may be likely to still enjoy. As a general matter, the earlier in the results management process the Substantial Assistance is provided, the greater the percentage of the otherwise applicable period of Ineligibility may be suspended.
If the Athlete or other Person claims entitlement to a suspended period of Ineligibility after a final decision finding an anti-doping rule violation has been rendered and is not subject to appeal under Article 13, but the Athlete or other Person is still serving the period of Ineligibility, the Athlete or other Person may apply to the Anti-Doping Organization which had results management responsibility for the anti-doping rule violation to consider a suspension in the period of Ineligibility under this Article. Any such suspension of the otherwise applicable period of Ineligibility shall require the approval of WADA and the applicable International Federation. -In other words, a suspended athlete can anytime decide to provide valuable information, and thereby recieve a significant reduction in the earlier enforced suspension time!
Art. 10.5.4 - Admission of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation in the Absence of Other Evidence:
Where an Athlete or other Person voluntarily admits the commission of an anti-doping rule violation before having received notice of a Sample collection which could establish an anti-doping rule violation (or, in the case of an anti-doping rule violation other than Article 2.1, before receiving first notice of the admitted violation pursuant to Article 7) and that admission is the only reliable evidence of the violation at the time of admission, then the period of Ineligibility may be reduced, but not below one-half of the period of Ineligibility otherwise applicable. -This article is completely new!
Art.10.5.5 - Where an Athlete or Other Person Establishes entitlement to Reduction in Sanction, under several articles:
If the Athlete or other Person establishes entitlement to a reduction or suspension of the period of Ineligibility under two or more of Articles 10.5.2 (No Significant Fault or Negligence), 10.5.3 (Substantial Assistance in Discovering or Establishing Anti-Doping Rule Violations) or 10.5.4 (Admission of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation in the Absence of Other Evidence), then the period of Ineligibility may be reduced or suspended, but not below one-fourth of the otherwise applicable period of Ineligibility. -This article is completely new!
Art.10.6 - Aggravating Circumstances Which May Increase the Period of Ineligibility:
If the Anti-Doping Organization establishes in an individual case involving an anti-doping rule violation other than violations under Articles 2.7 (Trafficking or Attempted Trafficking) and 2.8 (Administration or Attempted Administration) that aggravating circumstances are present which justify the imposition of a period of Ineligibility greater than the standard sanction, then the period of Ineligibility otherwise applicable shall be increased up to a maximum of four (4) years unless the Athlete or other Person can prove to the comfortable satisfaction of the hearing panel that he or she did not knowingly commit the anti-doping rule violation. An Athlete or other Person can avoid the application of this Article by admitting the anti-doping rule violation as asserted promptly after being confronted with the antidoping rule violation by an Anti-Doping Organization.
Examples of aggravating circumstances which may justify the imposition of a period of Ineligibility greater than the standard sanction are: the Athlete or other Person committed the antidoping rule violation as part of a doping plan or scheme, either individually or involving a conspiracy or common enterprise to commit anti-doping rule violations; the Athlete or other Person Used or Possessed multiple Prohibited Substances or Prohibited Methods or Used or Possessed a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method on multiple occasions; a normal individual would be likely to enjoy the performance-enhancing effects of the anti-doping rule violation(s) beyond the otherwise applicable period of Ineligibility; the Athlete or Person engaged in deceptive or obstructing conduct to avoid the detection or adjudication of an anti-doping rule violation. -This article is completely new!
Art.10.7.1 - Second Anti-Doping Rule Violation:
Ineligibility will be longer for a second violation compared to if the violation had happened for the first time. For a second anti-doping rule violation the period of Ineligibility shall be within the range set forth in the table at page 66 in the WADA rules.
Art. 10.7.3 - Third Anti-Doping Rule Violation:
A third anti-doping rule violation will always result in a lifetime period of Ineligibility, except if the third violation fulfills the condition for elimination or reduction of the period of Ineligibility under Article 10.4 involves a violation of Article 2.4 (Filing Failures and/or and Missed Tests). In these particular cases, the period of Ineligibility shall be from eight (8) years to life ban.
Art.10.7.4 - Additional Rules for Certain Potential Multiple Violations:
For purposes of imposing sanctions under Article 10.7, an anti-doping rule violation will only be considered a second violation if the Anti-Doping Organization can establish that the Athlete or other Person committed the second antidoping rule violation after the Athlete or other Person received notice pursuant to Article 7 (Results Management), or after the Anti-Doping Organization made reasonable efforts to give notice, of the first anti-doping rule violation; if the Anti-Doping Organization cannot establish this, the violations shall be considered together as one single first violation, and the sanction imposed shall be based on the violation that carries the more severe sanction; however, the occurrence of multiple violations may be considered as a factor in determining aggravating circumstances (Article 10.6). -This article has been clarified, and related to the new art.10.6!
Art.10.7.5 - Multiple Anti-Doping Rule Violations During an Eight-Year Period:
For purposes of Article 10.7, each anti-doping rule violation must take place within the same eight-year period in order to be considered multiple violations. -This aticle is new, and related to the general statute of limitation (art.17), being defined as 8 years for doping violations!
Art.10.9.2 - Commencement of Ineligibility Period, in case of a Timely Admission:
Where the Athlete or other Person promptly (which, in all events, for an Athlete means before the Athlete competes again) admits the anti-doping rule violation after being confronted with the antidoping rule violation by the AntiDoping Organization, the period of Ineligibility may start as early as the date of Sample collection or the date on which another antidoping rule violation last occurred. In each case, however, where this Article is applied, the
Athlete or other Person shall serve at least onehalf of the period of Ineligibility going forward from the date the Athlete or other Person accepted the imposition of a sanction, the date of a hearing decision imposing a sanction, or the date the sanction is otherwise imposed. This Article shall not apply where the period of Ineligibility already has been reduced under Art.10.5.4 (admission of an Antidoping rule violation in the absence of other evidence).
Art.10.9.5 - Special justifications are needed, for starting the period of Ineligibility earlier than the date of the hearing decision:
No credit against a period of Ineligibility shall be given for any time period before the effective date of the Provisional Suspension or voluntary Provisional Suspension regardless of whether the Athlete elected not to compete or was suspended by his or her team. Arbitration delays not attributable to the Athlete, timely admission by the Athlete and Provisional Suspension are the only justifications for starting the period of Ineligibility earlier than the date of the hearing decision. -This article has been clarified, to avoid earlier misinterpretation.
Art.10.11 - Reinstatement Testing:
As a condition to regaining eligibility at the end of a specified period of Ineligibility, an Athlete must, during any period of Provisional Suspension or Ineligibility, make him or herself available for Out-of-Competition Testing by any Anti-Doping Organization having Testing jurisdiction, and must, if requested, provide current and accurate whereabouts information. If an Athlete subject to a period of Ineligibility retires from sport and is removed from Out-of-Competition Testing pools and later seeks reinstatement, the Athlete shall not be eligible for reinstatement until the Athlete has notified relevant Anti-Doping Organizations and has been subject to Out-of-Competition Testing for a period of time equal to the period of Ineligibility remaining as of the date the Athlete had retired. -This article remained unchanged, but I thought it was interesting to highlight this rule, in connection with recent rumours about the retired riders Vinokourov and Landis wanting to make a comeback. In that case they need first to be available for OOCT for a period of 2 years!
Art.11.2 - Consequences for Team Sports
If more than two members of a team in a Team Sport are found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation during an Event Period, the ruling body of the Event shall impose an appropriate sanction on the team (e.g., loss of points, Disqualification from a Competition or Event, or other sanction). The ruling body for an Event may elect to establish rules for the Event which impose Consequences for Team Sports, stricter than those in Article 11.2 for purposes of the Event. -This rule is now less strict. Earlier WADA demanded team sanctions if more than one member of a team was positive, from 2009 this has been changed to "more than two members of a team". Each ruling body for an Event, are however still entitled to launch stricter rules if they feel like it.
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OctaBech
National Champion
Denmark
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Posted - 26/10/2008 : 16:01:45
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No idea how I managed to overlook this post for so long. Thanks for the overview, KD.
It's a good sign that the UCI is ready to take responsibility.:D
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KD teammate
Hors Categorie
Denmark
5683 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2008 : 17:10:36
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Today I have updated my post back at page 8, with the recent status in Operation Oil for Drugs. Since the last update from August, we recieved a judgement for 6 more persons, and thereby the total of judged persons now arrived at 73! I recommend you to read the entire post at page 8 (http://forum.teamcsc-saxobank.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5013&whichpage=8), but below you also find some of the new updates:
* Zoltan Bebto (one of the network leaders), was involved with trafficking and doping administration, and also caught with posession of 30 vials with natural GH, extracted from dead human bodies. Recieved life time suspension by TNA (as requested by CONI).
* Alessandro Orsetti (nurce, and main supplier of doping). Stole EPO and other doping products from the hospital where he worked, and sold them to the network. He also helped Alessio Galletti with blood doping. Recieved life time suspension by TNA (as requested by CONI).
* Francesco Di Paolo (2007=Acqua e Sapone) recieved a 2 year suspension from FCI (as requested by CONI).
* Daniele Marziani (2007=suspended for a pos.test) recieved life time suspension from FCI, due to 2nd offence (as requested by CONI).
* Ivan Stevic (2007=Toyota-United) recieved and sold large quanteties of doping from Dr.Santuccioni in 2004, and the Italian police seized multiple doping products in his refrigiator in May 2004. He recieved life time suspension by TNA (as requested by CONI).
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KD teammate
Hors Categorie
Denmark
5683 Posts |
Posted - 17/01/2009 : 05:35:12
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This is just to bump a notice, that my overall doping statistic in this topic (http://forum.team-csc.com/topic.asp?whichpage=9&TOPIC_ID=5013), now has been updated with the latest doping cases. When comparing the number of doping cases in 2007 and 2008, we had more or less a similair amount. We should however note, that the number of cases at PCTs almost were doubled in 2008. Perhaps a coincidense, but it could also indicate that the PCTs are now starting to get more closely tested, compared to previous years. 
Number of doping cases at all ProTour teams:
Doping cases in 2007: 14 out of 569 ProTour riders (2.5%)
Doping cases in 2008: 13 out of 501 ProTour riders (2.6%)
Number of doping cases at all Professional Continental Teams:
Doping cases in 2007: 4 out of 489 Professional Continental riders (0.8%)
Doping cases in 2008: 7 out of 472 Professional Continental riders (1.5%)
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Paul@CSC
World Champion
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/04/2009 : 16:21:38
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And it seems like Valverde is also now charged by Coni, maybe there is a bit of light at the end of the tunnel with all these investigations
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/01042009/58/valverde-charged-doping-offence.html
Spanish rider Alejandro Valverde has been charged with being involved in Spain's Operacion Puerto doping scandal, according to the Italian Olympic Committee.
CONI's anti-doping prosecutor has called for a two-year ban but any suspension agreed by an Italian anti-doping tribunal is likely to only take effect inside Italy.
CONI has alleged that blood samples Valverde gave at a doping control when last year's Tour de France entered Italy for a stage match DNA from code-named bags of blood discovered in the Spanish Puerto investigation, which was launched in 2006.
Valverde told an Italian anti-doping hearing in February that he was innocent of any wrongdoing but CONI has since been building its case and has now decided to charge the Spaniard, who topped the world rankings last season.
Valverde competed in the 2007 World Championships despite the sport's governing body, the International Cycling Union, trying to block his participation because he had been linked to Puerto.
Honesty is the best Policy!!
http://pauljones-journey.spaces.msn.com/
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KD teammate
Hors Categorie
Denmark
5683 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2009 : 17:06:52
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Austrian blood doping scandal (part 3)
Today this case is currently breaking again, with several reports in the news media across the world. I will now try to write a brief summary of the recent news. If you want to check further details about the case, I can recommend to read these 2 earlier parts:
Part 1 (Jan.2008): http://forum.teamcsc-saxobank.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5013&whichpage=5
Part 2 (Feb.2008): http://forum.teamcsc-saxobank.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5013&whichpage=7
The recent ground breaking news, is that Stefan Matschiner has been arrested March 31 by the Austrian police, for providing help and assistance for a large amount of athletes to dope. Bernhard Kohl stated at a press conference yesterday, that he since December 2008 has made a full collaboration with the Austrian authoraties. As part of that collaboration he provided names of all those people who had helped him to dope (including the person who provided him with CERA in July 2008). He also gave the authoraties the name of those athletes he knew were involved. In order not to disturb the secret investigation by the police, he had agreed not to go public with his story until now! Below you find all the facts, that Kohl so far shared with the news media about his own doping past:
- Since 2005 (his first year as pro), he recieved blood doping, EPO, growth hormones, testosterone and insulin from Matschiner.
- At first he visited Humanplasma, a Viennese blood clinic, to blood dope.
- Later the blood transfusions took place at Matschiner's house, after a doctor had instructed him how to use the equipment.
- In total he used blood doping 4-5 times, in order to get a further improvement compared to the other conventional doping products.
- In total he payed Matschiner an amount of €50.000 for all the doping he had recieved since 2005.
The confession made by Kohl will play an important role in the court case, that now will start against Matschiner. Doping only became illegal in Austria by August 2008, but Kohl has explained that the last time he made a visit to Humanplasma to recieve doping products, was as late as Sep.2008 (one month before his positive CERA test was revealed)!
According to spokesman for the public prosecutor in Vienna, they can proof that Matschiner dealt in forbidden substances "quite recently" and supplied "numerous athletes". Besides of the recent revelations from Bernhard Kohl, the prosecutor also recieved info from the triathlon athlete Lisa Hütthaler (who tested positive for EPO in 2008). Her confession revealed those further details below:
- As triathlon athlete she started to consult dr.Zoubek about doping, and got supplied with growth hormones plus one time also EPO.
- In 2007 dr.Zoubek arranged a meeting for her with Matschiner, in order to get access to a more broad amount of products.
- From 2007-2008 she payed Matschiner to deliver DynEPO 6 times, and also started to use testosterone. She payed €15,000 for that.
- She talked to Matschiner about blood doping the first time in August 2007, and was offered a treatment program. Matschiner possesed a centrifuge and blood collecting apparate. 2 times she had blood withdrawed in the basement of a house in Steyermühl, but retransfusion only happened 1 time. She was given the code name Cinderella, and the name of the blood bag she recieved was Cindy.
Sources:
Kohls confession (with 13 pictures): www.kurier.at/multimedia/bilder/307516.php
Hütthaler's confession (with 22 pictures): http://kurier.at/multimedia/bilder/306211.php
First summary of recent news: www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/apr09/apr01news
Second summary of recent news: www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2009/apr09/apr01news2
UPDATE (Apr.2):
Some additional details has been published by Kurier. This Austrian newspaper has so far been right about all their previous claims, and it seems like they have some good reliable sources. So eventhough they dont print any official source for their latest claims, I think we should pay attention to what they say. So here is the latest (yet unconfirmed) news:
- From 2002-2006 blood doping was carried out in the building of Humanplasma in Vienna.
- A total of 120 athletes from Biathlon, Cross country, Alpine skiing, Swimming and Cycling, were customers at Humanplasma.
- The doping network was managed by Walter Mayer, Stefan Matschiner and Dr. Andreas Zoubek, who all now are arested by the police.
- The public prosecutor posses a list with 2 dozens of names, that are suspected to have taken part in the criminal doping network.
- Christoph Kerschbaum (rider from continental team RC Arbö) has been charged of being drug dealer with a direct connection to Walter Mayer.
- These athletes were apparently "top customers" or had a role to play in the doping network: Andrus Veerpalu (cross country), Christian Hoffman (cross country), Wolfgang Perner (biathlon), Wolfgang Rottmann (biathlon), Gerrit Glomser (cycling), Georg Totschnig (cycling).
- Kurier also has information about the name of the person, who delivered the blood doping to Georg Totschnig in Tour de France 2005. Shortly before he won the mountain stage to AX3, he recieved a blood bag that had been transported to him from Vienna. A special 12V cooling box had been installed in a car, to make sure the blood arrived without being damaged of too high temperatures.
www.kurier.at/sportundmotor/307692.php
UPDATE (Apr.3):
- 5 persons connected to the fitness sport (Andreas L., Gerhard D., Alexander N., Peter M. and a "42-year old") has been arrested for illegal doping trade and trafficking. By a house search, the police seized doping products for a value of more than €200,000!
- The police has so far compiled a list of 70 customers of the doping network, that will be investigated further in the near future.
- Christoph Kerschbaum now admitted to have used doping from 2007-2009. But he explain that he was only freindly to "share" the doping with 6 colleagues/friends, and never earned any money from doping trade. The police released him today from custody.
- After interrogation by the police, the pharmacist in Vienna who delivered doping products to Kerschbaum, has also been released.
- Matschiner has admitted to help Kohl with blood doping. He also explained that he resently rented a small appartment in Budapest, where the police could find the centrifuge and blood collecting machine that he used. The market price for each machine was €75,000.
- The Austrian National AntiDoping Agency (NADA) will file a legal complaint for damage caused by Dr.Zoubek, in order to become a part of the prosecutors legal case against Dr.Zoubek, and therby get access to all the evidense and names of all implicated athletes.
- The German NADA will recieve all relevant court papers about involved German athletes from the Austrian NADA, when such papers become available in a future court case. The investigation of the public prosecutor is still ongoing, so no specific day has been set for the legal case against Dr.Zoubek. Hence all names of implicated athletes and suspects, are so far only known by the prosecutor.
http://sport.ard.de/sp/radsport/news200904/03/matschiner_uhaft.jsp
http://www.kurier.at/sportundmotor/308387.php
UPDATE (Apr.8):
The 37 year old Austrian rider Ferdinand Bruckner did his last race only 3 weeks ago, where he road Istrian Spring Trophy (2.2) in Croatia. He was starting for Team Auswahl Lrv Steiemark (a small elite2 team). After the Austrian Cycling Federation recently announced he tested positive for EPO, he has admitted his doping use and furthermore did a full collaboration with the police. He was able to help the police with more facts about the recently discovered doping network in Austria, but since he had lost faith in Cycling after some strange actions of the Austrian Cycling Federation and Austrian NADA, he didnt want a reduced suspension, but prefered to leave the sport for good.
UPDATE (Apr.9):
After all the recent news and revelations, here comes a short summary of the findings about the network, made by the Italian police in 2006. Those initial findings helped the Austrian police to dismantle the doping network, and can be found explicit written in this CAS decision:
CAS decision (nov.2008) about Pinter and the entire case: www.wada-ama.org/rtecontent/document/CAS_2007_A_1434_Pinter.pdf
First time a part of the doping network was discovered, was back in the Winter Olympic games in Salt Lake City 2002. The head coach of the Austrian cross country skiing team: Walter Mayer, performed medical acts for which he had no training, certification and authorisation. Blood transfusion equipment was found in a dust bin, and it was established that he had extracted blood from 2 athletes. The 2 athletes got suspended. In regards of Walter Mayer he tried to excuse the blood transfusions by saying: "The blood was extracted and reinfused, only with the purpose to light it through with strong UV rays, in order to improve the athletes immune system and thereby reduce the risk to get attacked by a virus".
IOC didnt accept this wierd explanation from Walter Mayer, and at 26/5-2002 they banned him from any kind of participation in the Olympic Games in 2006 and 2010. The decision got appealed to CAS, but 20/3-2003 they clearly confirmed the decision from IOC.
In spite of Walter Mayer being banned from the Olympics, he still showed up as part of the Austrian Skiing Team in the Winter Olympics of Torino 2006. The Italian police then raided the residence of the Austrian Biathlon and Cross Country team at 18/2-2006. They seized this equipment for blood doping and control of the blood: A device to test the blood group, A device to test haemaglobin level, Saline solutions and Albumin to lower the haemaglobin levels in an artificial way, Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (known to increase mens natural secretion of testosterone), Thiogamma, Neoton Creatin, "Rhinomer", "Pyralvex", syringes, needles, infusion devices, and apparatus for transfusion (incl. bags for collecting, storing and transfusing blood).
The blood doping equipment was used by 4 cross country skiers and 2 biathlon skiers, and with the assistance from the 2 trainers: Emil Hoch and Walter Mayer. In the list below it has been noted in detail, how they afterwords have been punished.
4 Austrian cross country skiiers:
Jürgen Pinter (CAS decision: suspended 4 years until 1/3-2010 for violating §2.6 and §2.8. IOC decision: suspended from Olympics for life)
Johannes Eder (FIS decision: suspended 2 years until 22/11-2009 for violating §2.2 and §2.6. IOC decision: suspended from Olympics for life)
Martin Tauber (FIS decision: suspended 2 years until 22/11-2009 for violating §2.6. IOC decision: suspended from Olympics for life)
Roland Diethart (FIS decision: suspended 2 years until 22/11-2009 for violating §2.6. IOC decision: suspended from Olympics until 2010)
2 Austrian biathlon athletes:
Wolfgang Rottmann (FIS decision: suspended for life. IOC decision: suspended from Olympics for life)
Wolfgang Perner (FIS decision: suspended for life. CAS decision: still pending. IOC decision: suspended from Olympics for life)
2 trainers from the Austrian national team:
Walter Mayer (FIS decision: suspended for life)
Emil Hoch (CAS decision: suspended 15 years for violating §2.6 and §2.8)
12 staff from the Austrian national team (suspended from all future Olympic games by ÖOC, but not convicted by ÖSV/FIS/IOC):
Markus Gandler (sports director), Walter Gapp (trainer), Alfred Eder (trainer), Walter Hörl (trainer), Heinz Mühlbacher (trainer), Andreas Eder (trainer), Gerald Heigl (trainer), Stefan Rohrmoser (trainer), Reinhard Neuner (trainer), Gerhard Urain (trainer), Peter Baumgartl (team doctor), and Volker Müller.
The prosecutor of Torino has also finalized their investigation 7/10-2008, and will "soon" publish a verdict! So far these 10 names are being accused for violating the Italian doping law, and they now risk to get imprisoned with a penalty frame of 3 months to 3 years:
Peter Schroecknadel (president of the Federation of Austrian Nordic skiing)
Peter Baumgartl (team doctor and head of the Austrian medical association)
Walter Mayer (coach)
Emile Hoch (coach)
Andrea Gandler (coach)
Jurgen Pinter (cross country athlete, 29 years)
Johannes Eder (cross country athlete, 29 years)
Martin Tauber (cross country athlete, 32 years)
Wolfgang Rottmann (biathlon athlete, 35 years)
Wolfgang Perner (biathlon athlete, 41 years)
The seized evidence from the raid in the Winter Olympics of Torino, revealed that the blood bags origined from the company Humanplasma in Vienna. Furthermore experts helped the police to establish, that some of the equipment clearly had been assembled by the use of advanced tools, only to be found at a professional laboratory. So eventhough the athletes involved apparently had made the measurements and infusions by their own, it was clear that a broader network also had been supporting them. Yet all of the accused trainers and athletes from the police raid in Torino 2006, claimed to be innosent, and didnt at any level collaborate!
¤ Winner of the Golden League Fantasy Game 2008 |
Edited by - KD teammate on 09/04/2009 23:48:46 |
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CrossRacer
National Champion
USA
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Posted - 08/04/2009 : 14:05:21
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BikePure.org has a link to an interview with Michael Ashenden. It is rather lengthy but has lots of information about tests he developed for the Olympics and retesting past Tour samples.
http://bikepure.org/news_april_09.html |
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Paul@CSC
World Champion
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10/04/2009 : 13:11:58
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This starts off with the whole Lance vs AFLD saga.
Frankly as much as they seem to be persecuting Lance with the whole repeated testing and all the stories that have gone before. Lance has got to hold himself accountable for this to some extent. After all thats gone before and all the tests he's had down the years..........i really do question the wisdom he employed when he asked to go take a shower !!.
He knows the the rules, he knows he has to stay in sight of the tester the whole time, he's been doing this for years. If he thinks its acceptable to hide behind the fact he asked (which he never should have) to go take a shower and was told yes, then he's an idiot!!. So what if Johan stayed there, Johan isn't the one they suspect of shooting himself up to win bike races!!
I'm a Lance fan, but this time he really did shoot himself in the arm!!
Honesty is the best Policy!!
http://pauljones-journey.spaces.msn.com/
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Andrew_M
National Champion
Poland
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Doping affairs in Cycling since 1980
