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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Investigations are ongoing after Spanish police today arrested a Peruvian doctor Walter Viru on suspicion of running a doping ring. Viru is a former collaborator with the disgraced Eufemiano Fuentes, who was detained over three years ago as part of the Operacion Puerto affair. Like Fuentes, he formerly worked as a team doctor for the Kelme squad. A dozen people were also taken into custody in Barcelona,...
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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
More details about Jan Ullrich's relationship with Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes, centre of Spanish doping investigation Operación Puerto , have emerged. The former Tour de France winner knew the code names and telephone numbers for Fuentes and his assistant Merino Batres, according to news magazine Focus . The German federal police (BKA) found a CD with telephone numbers during a search of Ullrich's...
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The Sports ITeam Blog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Mark Cuban is going maverick again. "I'll get killed for saying this,” said the Dallas Mavericks owner on Tuesday, “but I'm not so against steroids if they're administered under proper supervision and there is no long-term damage." Mark Cuban is in favor of 'safe' steroids. According to news reports about the speech, delivered at the University of Pittsburgh, Cuban rightly pointed...
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VeloNews (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich on Tuesday brushed off the latest doping allegations against him and repeated his position that he will speak only when he is ready. On Monday, German magazine Der Spiegel cited a police investigation report which states Ullrich went to Madrid 24 times between 2003 and 2006 to see doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, the Madrid gynecologist at the center of the Spanish...
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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich visited Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes in Madrid 24 times from 2003 to 2006, according to the German news magazine Spiegel . The visits are said to have been organised by Rudy Pevenage, former Team T-Mobile director, and the evidence for them was found on his computer. Pevenage, considered to be Ullrich's mentor when the German was racing, told German investigators...
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VeloNews (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich consulted Eufemiano Fuentes, the Madrid gynecologist at the center of the Operación Puerto doping case, 24 times between 2003 and 2006, Der Spiegel said in a report to appear on Monday. Der Spiegel's report was based on a 2,219-page investigation into Ullrich by German police which concluded that the rider "used Dr Fuentes doping system to improve...
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VeloNews (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Alejandro Valverde finally has a date with destiny. November 16, to be exact, when the Court of Arbitration for Sport will hear testimony in the ongoing appeal on his two-year racing ban in Italy for links to the Operación Puerto blood doping scandal. The reigning Vuelta a España champion is fending off allegations leveled by Italian authorities that he was one of the top clients of Dr....
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cyclingnews.com (Free subscription) | 08/02/2009
German prosecutors are investigating if Jan Ullrich lied under oath in an August 2006 court hearing in Hamburg, Germany. The former Tour de France winner denied he paid money to Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, centre of doping investigation Operación Puerto . The Hamburg prosecutor's investigation started two weeks ago "because of the suspicion of giving a false statement." The investigation...
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Steroid Nation (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Earthtimes carries the story on Italian pro cyclist Ivan Basso, the elite cyclist who found Operation Puerto and Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes injected into his illustrious career. Interesting that when Lance Armstrong won the string of Tour de France races Basso and Germany's Jan Ullrich put put up the strongest challenges; both are now considered disgraced dopers. Cyclist Ivan Bassoi on Tuesday received...
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Podium Cafe (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
While the doping accusations against Leonardo Piepoli are suprising only in that they didn't happen sooner, two other recent stories have struck a blow against one of Cycling's recent, positive narratives. Frank Schleck's entanglements with Eufemiano Fuentes and Operacion Puerto have undermined Bjarne Riis' clean-team mantra, and today's announcement that Stefan Schumacher was on CERA at the Tour...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Hamburg - Luxembourg cyclist Franck Schleck was immediately suspended by his CSC Saxo Bank team Friday following his admission that he paid 7,000 euros (9,740 dollars) to Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, the man at the centre of the Operacion Puerto...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Hamburg - Luxembourg cyclist Franck Schleck was suspended by his CSC Saxo Bank team Friday following his admission that he paid 7,000 euros (9,740 dollars) to Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, the man at the centre of the Operacion Puerto blood-dopin...
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Steroid Nation (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Beltran, Duenas, Piepoli, Ricco, Saunier Duval, Jesus Losa, Operation Puerto, Tour de France, Cycling, EPO, Doping, PEDs, Eufemiano Fuentes
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Hamburg - Footballers and athletes from tennis, swimming and track and field - and not only cyclists - are involved in the Spanish doping probe centring on doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, according to world cycling supremo Pat McQuaid. McQuaid told German ...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Rome - Tour de France winner Alberto Contador and other cyclists risk being banned from Italian races if they don't co-operate in an Italian investigation of the Spanish doping scheme around doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. The La Gazzetta dello Sport daily...
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