Epargne Cycling
The recent coverage of "Operation Puerto"
Just days before the end of the Giro d 'Italia "Operation Puerto" doping scandal is entering a phase most revealing. The blood doping scandal began a year ago before the Tour de France 2006 with the arrest Manolo Saiz and four others accused of doping practices involving more than 200 athletes, including up to 107 cyclists.
Entire teams as a Community Valencia (continental) and Liberty Seguros (professional) were dissolved after the scandal, but it starts the cycle became suspicious. Operation Puerto returned suffered the misfortune to open in 1998 with the "Tour of Shame."
Some of the professional cyclists related to the case, as Mancebo, Ivan Basso and Vinokourov, who were the favorites to win the "French Round" suffered the consequences of their involvement when they can take part in recent years Tour de France. Basso also was expelled from the Discovery Channel team, and admitted that his relationship with the Port.
However, the case remains open and commitment rumors Spanish Alejandro Valverde of Caisse d'Epargne, one of the most famous cyclists in the last two years. According to Italian newspaper Il Giornali Valverde was number 18 in the blood bank Dr. Fuentes.
Most of the riders implicated in Operation Puerto has been prohibited from participating in major races (Giro d 'Italia, Tour de France and Tour of Spain), but experts say the issue of the platoon who is riding the Giro d' Italia also are using performance enhancers. The recent confession of Bjarne Riis, winner of the 1996 Tour and now the owner and director of the CSC team opens the suspicions of his team is currently riding the Giro. Furthermore, three former Telekom riders Bert Dietz, Christian Henn and Udo Boelts admitted this week that he had taken EPO.
Sport authorities are determined to continue the case until the end and as part of it, the AMA was approved to access files related to port, which means disciplinary actions taken against fraudsters bike.
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