Doping

Operation Puerto Doping-blood bags are issued

One of the biggest doping scandals in sports history is possibly its security. The blood bags be destroyed, in the case of Fuentes to a professional cyclist Jan Ullrich and co., but must be issued.

It is the biggest doping scandal in Spain and the entire sports history – now there is a twist: A Madrid appeal court acquitted the doctor, Eufemiano Fuentes. In 2013, he was sentenced to a year in prison, suspended, and four years of professional ban and 4500 Euro fine. This decision was revoked: The blood that he had used at the time for transfusions, not covered no medicine and the case so that the law in question.

At the same time, the court ordered that the 211 in the year 2006, the seized blood bags from dozens of top athletes to the world Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), must be handed over to the Spanish Cycling Federation, the Cycling world governing body UCI, as well as to the National Olympic Committee of Italy (CONI) and other sporting institutions, and not destroyed. The former clients of the Spanish “doping doctor” is now threatening the exposure of their cases. And in the world of sports, Russia, Kenya, and co. currently already in turmoil, is now all of a sudden back in front of another scandal on an unprecedented scale. “The stated goal is to combat Doping,” it said in the justification of the verdict, otherwise there is “a risk that other athletes could be seduced by the Doping.”

WADA extended period of Limitation

The blood bag store in Barcelona

Also in terms of the “Operation Puerto” had extended the WADA 2015, the limitation period from eight to ten years. It is controversial whether cases, the before 1. In January 2015, on the record, the Eight-year rule to apply. With satisfaction the NADA Board member Lars Mortsiefer responded to the court decision. “This is a good day for the Anti-Doping fight,” he said to the SID. “We interpret the rule to the Ten-year limitation period in the world Anti-Doping Code so that they can also be used on older cases applied. In this respect, we are looking forward to the analyses, the blood bag by the WADA.”

The bag and stored in a research Park in Barcelona Anti-Doping laboratory. The Fuentes-affair initially concerned almost exclusively the sport of Cycling. The clear names of more than 50 suspects professionals, including the only German Tour winner Jan Ullrich – were the day before the Start of the Tour de France in 2006 to the public. But also athletes from other sports, such as football, athletics or Tennis, scuba diving, allegedly, in Fuentes’ list of clients.

og/jk (sid, dpa)