Spain- The dirtiest country in sport?

Boom... wrote:

Your translation is really bad (I'm spanish and I'm frustrated and disappointed but you have to be careful about what you say). It only says his blood is going to be compared with the bags, probably because he's trained by Pascua.

Apologies if that was posted incorrectly but google translate misled me! I also see the coach of Nuria Fernandez and Bezabeh has been detained, both those athletes have won european titles in the past year, their reputations will be ruined if he goes down, needless to say it's well overdue for the s%%t to hit the fan in Spanish athletics. Good to see they're not protected by their own police/government at least though, even if their federation appears incredibly crooked. For example, why did it take five months for Blanco's positive to emerge after his barcelona medal? Does it take five months to do a friggin B test?

Bad link, actually. Estevez has no legal implication...yet. It is named because Pascua is his current coach.

There are some mistakes in that piece of news. For example Cyclist Luis Leon Sanchez is not part of the investigation, but a BTT rider also named Sanches.

Pay attention to the implication of...ALBERTO GARCIA, former two years baned for EPO.

Please pay attention to the fact that Dominguez, Fernandez, Bezabeh...NEVER tested negative. They have been caught due to Laws on doping substance distribution. Equivalent laws in the USA? uh?

Rui wrote:

Bad link, actually. Estevez has no legal implication...yet. It is named because Pascua is his current coach.

There are some mistakes in that piece of news. For example Cyclist Luis Leon Sanchez is not part of the investigation, but a BTT rider also named Sanches.

Pay attention to the implication of...ALBERTO GARCIA, former two years baned for EPO.

Please pay attention to the fact that Dominguez, Fernandez, Bezabeh...NEVER tested negative. They have been caught due to Laws on doping substance distribution. Equivalent laws in the USA? uh?

Did you mean to write 'NEVER tested positive'?

If so, Marion Jones never tested positive either. Doesn't mean a thing.

trollism wrote:

Rui wrote:

Bad link, actually. Estevez has no legal implication...yet. It is named because Pascua is his current coach.

There are some mistakes in that piece of news. For example Cyclist Luis Leon Sanchez is not part of the investigation, but a BTT rider also named Sanches.

Pay attention to the implication of...ALBERTO GARCIA, former two years baned for EPO.

Please pay attention to the fact that Dominguez, Fernandez, Bezabeh...NEVER tested negative. They have been caught due to Laws on doping substance distribution. Equivalent laws in the USA? uh?

Did you mean to write 'NEVER tested positive'?

If so, Marion Jones never tested positive either. Doesn't mean a thing.

Never testing positive means approximately jack shit, glad to see these cheats are going down, hopefully they'll get prosecuted in a realm further than sport too. They've conned so many honest athletes out of medals.

ventolin^3 wrote:

what part of "calibre" don't you understand ?

Sometimes it is just too easy.

Boom... wrote:I also see the coach of Nuria Fernandez and Bezabeh has been detained

i cannot remember all these rodriguez/fernandez's, etc but 2 of them ran incredible runs:

one "won" the 1500 title with an astonishing kick in berlin '09 & was dq'ed after for pushing an ethiopian

another ran a 4'01i a coupla years back - this is excellent in itself, but she jogged the first few 100m & then ran an absolutely humungous last 800m - 1k or such, probably couda gone 3'57/3'58 if she had run it hard all the way - that is ~ 3'55/3'56 ability outdoors !!!

these were incredible performances from hitherto moderate athletes at elite level

stunk to high hell !!!

Go to 7:30 in this and watch fernanzez's last 50 to win euros this year, it's just ridiculous how doped she was, many sub 4 women behind her, including a handful of other drug cheats. The margin she opens in just 50metres is just silly.

yeah, it is crazy.

Most of Fuentes clients were/are soccer players. However, great effort was made by everyone to not release the names. Spain won World Cup and the last EURO, too. T&F and cycling is just the tip of the iceberg.

Some Coked Up Brit wrote:

Anyone know what dirty sanchez is up to lately?

Where is Ritz and Teg? Bye bye non-African sub 13. What a difference a year makes.

brettfavresdog wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXX3RaSoR2M

Go to 7:30 in this and watch fernanzez's last 50 to win euros this year, it's just ridiculous how doped she was, many sub 4 women behind her, including a handful of other drug cheats. The margin she opens in just 50metres is just silly.

can someone dig out fernandez's splits in that race ( last lap was 61.5 ( her's was actually quicker as she was in the pack at the bell )) for a 4'00-flat

i'd also like very much her splits for the last 200m & 100m in that race

if we have that info, i can work out a reasonable estimate for her flat-out ability gun-to-tape that race

Off the video, it looks like 64.0, 65.3, 65.3, 45.6. What's probably more relevant is that she put over 2 seconds into alminova (who ran 3:57 two weeks before barcelona) in the space of just 80m! Fernandez, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen at the usual big meets on the european circuit before or after barcelona, I wonder why.

brettfavresdog wrote:

Off the video, it looks like 64.0, 65.3, 65.3, 45.6. What's probably more relevant is that she put over 2 seconds into alminova (who ran 3:57 two weeks before barcelona) in the space of just 80m! Fernandez, meanwhile, was nowhere to be seen at the usual big meets on the european circuit before or after barcelona, I wonder why.

Fernandez also made Dobriskey (who is generally known as being a fast kicker) look like a jogger in that final straight. What a joke.