German media claimed to have recorded conversations with the doctor Eufemiano Fuentes in which he describes in detail how he doped the Spanish team at the Olympic Games. OO Barcelona 92. The famous doctor would have received orders from the Spanish government to win medalsso he developed a doping strategy copied from other countries. The statements came days before the opening of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Report ARDMediatheque mentions seeing evidence the doping strategy that Fuentes implemented in Barcelona in 1992.In an interview recorded by hidden cameras, the doctor admitted that he had given doping to Spanish athletes on orders from the government of Felipe Gonzalez. Officers at the time asked him for medals at any cost.
Fuentes, the doctor in charge of the Joaquin Blum Residence for high-performance athletes, used blood doping on olympic athletes. The method was the same as that used by cyclists competing in the Tour de France, and consisted of performing blood transfer for better performance.
“Your own blood, taken long before the competition, is transfused shortly before the competition. Otherwise, you won’t be able to perform as well,” he said. According to Eufemiano Fuentes, monitoring the blood was safer, cleaner and easier, although it was not the only method. The doctor also admitted to doping record holder Caetano Cornet with growth hormone, testosterone, anabolic steroids
To remain undetected during anti-doping control, His strategy was based on that used by the Soviet Union’s Olympic teams.. The sources mentioned that they paid doctors from the GDR and other communist countries in dollars. “We copied the system of the Eastern Bloc countries. We had money to exchange information with East German, Polish, Russian, Czech doctors from all the Eastern countries,” he said.
Doping in Spain revealed days before 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Although the interview with Eufemiano Fuentes took place in 2021, the details were not made public. ORD claims to have seen hidden camera footage of Fuentes admitting to the facts and how “it flew by unnoticed” so as not to be associated with the triumphs of athletesThe Spanish delegation won 22 medals (13 gold, 7 silver and 2 bronze) at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
Eufemiano Fuentes He is the protagonist of one of the biggest doping scandals in the history of Spanish sport. An investigation by the Civil Guard found that Fuentes provided blood transfusions and doping drugs to famous athletes, like cyclist Jan Ulrich.
Operation Puerto found 186 bags of blood and various doping substances during a raid on a Madrid clinic. According to ABCAmong the documents discovered by the Civil Guard are evidence of training of athletes, tennis players and football playersThe doctor would apply his methods at the European Championships in Munich in 2002, where the Spanish team won fifteen medals.
However, Fuentes was arrested in 2006. Doping is not a crime under current Spanish law. at the time. In 2013, the doctor was sentenced to a year in prison for violating public health laws and banned from practicing sports medicine for four years.
Fuentes’ statements represent tsunami for Spain and Caetano Cornet himself, the head of the Olympic team missionwho are preparing to participate in the Olympic Games. OO from Paris. So far, there have been no statements on this matter from Cornet or the Spanish Olympic Committee.
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