The drug scandal that has rocked the world the last few weeks has reached a crescendo this week, with the Lance Armstrong scandal reaching a climax with the two part Oprah Winfrey interviews on thursday night (friday morning our time).
The discussion means that no athlete from now on is immune from suspicion and the double standards shown by the authorities have been staggering.
The big case i have been banging on about for years is the spanish doctor Fuentes doping scandal back in 2007. To cut a long story short, he had around 400 blood bags ready for transfusion with athletes from many sports.
Just before the tour de france in 2007, dr fuentes was arrested and raided by the police.
The whole house and underground building was cleared out, and each of the blood bags had secret coded names. Ivan basso, the italian rider had a blood bag names “brillo”, which was the name of his dog.
Jan Ullrich had his name on the blood bag ready for transfusion, and he was promptly banned and immediately had to pull out of the race.
The cyclists in that case ALL got banned from cycling for two years, WITHOUT EXCEPTION.
Alberto contador was implicated, but got off with it as it was unclear evidence about him. One year later he won the tour de france before being caught two years later for doping, which he kept on denying, he is now free to do this year’s tour de france!!!
The most interesting part about the 2007 dr fuentes case was that TENNIS and FOOTBALL players were implicated in that case, including 6 barcelona players AND prominent spanish and french tennis players!!!
They DID NOT PROSECUTE the footballers and tennis players-FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON!!!
One very famous spanish grand slam tennis player has been suspected for taking drugs for years, especially by the french press. Somehow though, he was never investigated?!!!!
Double standards and corruption is rife in all sports it seems, at least cycling IS TRYING to get its house in order!!!
The scandals in other sports are waiting to come out, give it time!!
