Algemeen sporttopic (geen voetbal)

maar bij Danny (wie?) Nelissen moeten we alles maar met de mantel der liefde bedekken?

"Het was een mengeling van volwassen, begripvolle reacties en zeer onbeschaafde reacties. Als mensen je kanker en zelfs de dood toewensen, kun je dat niet waarderen."

Hij heeft ergens wel gelijk.

Zo een Danny (wie?) Nelissen dopeert zich en komt nog steeds niet in de buurt van de prijzen. Dan kan je net zo goed clean rijden.

Hij heeft gelijk dat de media de omerta in stand houdt doordat ze niet verder kijken dan de renner.

Wederom niet gehinderd door enige kennis van zaken...

Carriere Nelissen

Danny had net iets te veel medelijden met zichzelf, maar goed, het is eruit.

Kijk al uit naar het interview met Van Houwelingen morgen: Danny Nelissen? Nooit van gehoord.

Zojuist gekeken. Leuke TV

In ieder geval veel interessanter dan het Armstrong interview./

En ik zit nog eerlijk gezegd te wachten op de bekentenis van Boogerd, want het is inmiddels wel duidelijk dat ook hij heeft gebruikt.

Zonneveld kon wel nuance brengen maar werd vaak afgekapt en een tikkeltje overschreeuwd. Gertje had er misschien niet bij moeten zitten. Erik Dijkstra was wel erg sterk.

En ik zit nog eerlijk gezegd te wachten op de bekentenis van Boogerd, want het is inmiddels wel duidelijk dat ook hij heeft gebruikt.

The Spanish government has been accused of suppressing evidence linking footballers and tennis stars to a notorious doctor who will go on trial in Madrid next week and has been described as a “one-man Wal-Mart” of doping.

Detectives in Spain have been gathering evidence from all over Europe about Dr Eufemiano Fuentes since first raiding his offices in 2006. The investigation, known as “Operation Puerto”, has revealed one of the most extensive drug rings in sports history.

When Fuentes finally appears in court next Monday charged with public health offences, it will mark the start of a trial expected to last two months and at which cycling’s rampant culture of drug use will be exposed again, just days after Lance Armstrong’s dramatic confession on US television to Oprah Winfrey.

But despite Fuentes freely admitting to working with professional footballers and tennis players as well as cyclists, the Spanish authorities have ruled that the case will only cover his involvement in cycling.

The failure to explore in court Fuentes’s work outside cycling has infuriated the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and led to accusations of a cover-up to limit the impact on Spain’s sporting reputation.

“We have been banging our heads against a brick wall to get access to the evidence that was gathered,” Dave Howman, WADA’s director general, said. “It is not only frustrating and disappointing but it also means that many athletes who might be dirty have been allowed to compete.”

When police sifted through evidence at Fuentes’s office they found fridges filled with bags of blood and labelled with code names such as Bella, Son of Ryan and Zapatero as well as extensive written records. Fifty-four cyclists were implicated in the doping ring and star names such as Tyler Hamilton, Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich were eventually suspended, but many others were cleared.

“We were always told that the patients this man was treating were across a number of sports so it was disappointing that cycling was the only sport isolated,” Howman added.

One of the cyclists whose career was ended by Operation Puerto, Jorge Jaksche, said Fuentes boasted about his work with other sportsmen and that German police suspected Fuentes may have been working with footballers at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

“Yes, for sure he was involved [with other sports] and when he talked about it he was quite proud,” said the German rider, who is due to give evidence in the trial. “If you watch the videos made by the police during the raid at one stage they open the fridge and pull out blood bags. They have certain code names written on them [identifying the athletes] but these names never appear in the report and I think there is a big cover-up by the Spanish government. There is no interest from on high in too much information coming out.”

Fuentes has admitted working with football teams in Spain’s first and second divisions as well as tennis and handball players. Spanish police are believed to have unearthed evidence in his vast database revealing names of Fuentes’s clients but these have never been made public. Police authorities across Europe co-operated on the case and the trail led to Germany. Investigators questioned Jaksche over whether Fuentes had treated him in Frankfurt in 2006.

“I said no because normally he would only go to Germany if there was a stage of the Tour de France there but I think the truth is in 2006 there was the soccer World Cup in Germany and the German police knew something about it but didn’t have the whole information.”

Before the Operation Puerto case, Spain was something of a wild west frontier for doping, as it was not illegal in Spain at the time. In his book, The Secret Race, Hamilton compared Fuentes to the massive American chain Wal-Mart and that “even being conservative, Ufe [Fuentes] was making millions” from supplying doping programmes to athletes. However, because of the legal situation at the time, Fuentes is not being tried for doping offences. He is facing charges of breaking public health laws, with the authorities alleging that the transfusions were not carried out with the appropriate medical facilities.

Reports in Spain have said that Fuentes is not denying that the transfusions took place, but his defence will state they were done with top-of-the-range equipment.

Dozens of riders whose names were found in his files will give evidence at Fuentes’s trial including Tour de France winner Alberto Contador. A court has cleared him of being the person given the code name “AC” in Fuentes’s files.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has expressed disappointment in the past that only cycling was investigated. “Fuentes said it himself, 30 per cent of his clients were cyclists. Where’s the other 70 per cent?” UCI president Pat McQuaid said when the case was reopened in 2009.

The Telegraph

Als het toch al duidelijk is, waarom wacht je er nog op?

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En ik zit nog eerlijk gezegd te wachten op de bekentenis van Boogerd, want het is inmiddels wel duidelijk dat ook hij heeft gebruikt.

Ik kan niet geloven dat Boogerd doping zou gebruikt hebben. Hij heeft altijd ontkend en hij komt bij mij zeer oprecht over.

Ik kan niet geloven dat Boogerd doping zou gebruikt hebben. Hij heeft altijd ontkend en hij komt bij mij zeer oprecht over.

Ik kan niet geloven dat Boogerd doping zou gebruikt hebben. Hij heeft altijd ontkend en hij komt bij mij zeer oprecht over.