15 of them from the (former) Liberty Seguros Team of Manolo Saiz(who was caught buying the stuff).
It's gonna be funny at the Tour when day after day the Liberty now Astana Team will shrink because riders getting suspended.
15 of them from the (former) Liberty Seguros Team of Manolo Saiz(who was caught buying the stuff).
It's gonna be funny at the Tour when day after day the Liberty now Astana Team will shrink because riders getting suspended.
Well on OLN they were lamenting the fact that cycling was in the news again, for the WRONG reasons.
It seems that Ullrich is also involved!
They found the name Jan in many older bills of the lab and the nickname "rudys son"(Rudy Pevenage is Ullrichs coach) in later bills.
Ullrichs teammate Oscar Sevilla who is also involved said in an interview:If they fire me, they have to fire Ullrich too!
Wouldn't be surprised if Vinokourov is also involved, didn't have much "fire" at the Dauphine.
Several code names in Spain's blood doping case allegedly correspond to that of Tour de France contender Jan Ullrich, according to Madrid daily El Pais. According to the newspaper Spanish police are investigating two names that popped up in the inquest "Hijo Rudicio" (Rudicio son) and "Jan".
Ullrich firmly denied any involvement with Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes, who along with then-Liberty Seguros Manager Manolo Saiz was briefly detained in late May when the alleged blood-smuggling scandal broke. The 1997 Tour de France winner insisted he had never worked with Fuentes.
El Pais reports that police found a calling card belonging to José Luis Merino, one the officials at the Madrid lab at the heart of the blood transfusion ring. On the back were several handwritten names and a series of numbers, which could correspond to pouches of blood.
"RUDY'S SON"
Number 1 was attributed to "Hijo Rudicio", which investigators tell El Pais could mean "Son of Rudy" as in Rudy Pevenage - T-Mobile director who has also been Ullrich's personal trainer in past seasons.
According to the newspaper, "documents show readings from June 26, 2004 where the name JAN appears...."
"Two years ago, security measures were not as tight and the names of cyclists appeared directly on the pouches," adds the report.
The name "Jan" also appears on receipts for doping agents found in a police raid for a total sum of more than 1,900 euros.
Ullrich's T-Mobile team-mate Oscar Sevilla's name has surfaced in the inquiry, although neither has been formally named.
Ullrich has told his T-Mobile team's website he has never worked with Fuentes. The latest allegation surfaces ahead of next Saturday's start to the Tour de France in Strasbourg.
Tyler Hamilton revisited from cyclingnews.com
El Pais turned its attention away from Spanish cyclists in its first big article on Monday, "The transfusions and the dollars of Tyler Hamilton". In September 2004, Hamilton tested positive for a homologous blood transfusion after winning the time trial at the Vuelta a España. He also returned a positive A sample for a homologous transfusion after winning the Olympic games time trial a month previously in August. His B sample was inadvertently frozen, and no result could be determined from it. Although he is still in possession of his Olympic gold medal, he was stripped of his Vuelta stage win and suspended until September 22, 2006, despite appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
According to El Pais, the documents seized by the Spanish civil guard during Operacion Puerto show that Hamilton was not as innocent as he claimed. It's alleged that he not only received blood transfusions, but also a full doping program involving EPO, anabolics, growth hormone and IGF-1.
The paper claims that among the files of Dr Eufemiano Fuentes and Jose Merino Batres, are some details of Hamilton's financial dealings in 2002 and 2003, including a copy of a fax sent to his wife Haven to a hotel in Gerona, where he lived. On the fax, it's shown that he had paid €31,200 with €11,840 still owing: €35,000 was for the medical program, and €8,040 was for the medication.
The doctors' files allegedly consisted of two pages. In the first, a calendar of the racing season is laid out from November to October, with the races that the rider wanted to do well in being marked along with the medication that he should take. The markings were in the so-called "Sanskrit of Eufemiano", a notation system of substances, doses, and procedures. Before the 2003 season, Dr Fuentes indicated that Hamilton should start taking EPO from December 21, with 2000 units daily, up until Christmas Eve, and then on alternate days until January 9. On the 14th of January, before his first training camp with CSC, he was instructed to withdraw blood. On January 24, he was to start with anabolics. In March, after racing had started, he was to take HMG - a hormone used by menopausal women - to mask the anabolics, as well as taking growth hormone and insulin.
The second page of the file allegedly showed that he won Liège-Bastogne-Liège six days after a double transfusion of blood, won the Tour de Romandie shortly afterwards, and prepared for the Tour by not racing in May and taking anabolics and EPO. He then raced only the Dauphiné Libéré in June - completely anonymously, and didn't even start the final stage. At the time, he claimed to be suffering from stomach problems all week, but El Pais alleged that according to Dr Fuentes files, it was during another period of blood extraction. In the final lead up to the Tour, he was to take more growth hormone and re-infuse the blood, as well as doing so on the first rest day of the race.
Wow this is going to be a huge blow-out, probably the biggest in the history of doping.
Now where are the "Hamilton says he is innocent and i believe him" posters?
some of the nicknames&numbers that are linked to numbers on blood-bags:
1 - Hijo Rudicio. 2 - Birillo. 4 - Nicolas. 5 - Sevillano. 6 - Sancti Petri. 12 - Guti. 13 - Serrano (alcalde). 14 - RH. 16 - Vicioso. 17 - Porras. 19 - Oso. 20 - Bella (Jörg). 24 - Clasicómano (Luigi). 25 - Amigo de Birillo. 26-Huerta. 32 - Zapatero. 33 - Clasicómano.
Hijo Rudicio..Rudys son=Ullrich?
Sevillano..Sevilla?
Vicioso..Angel Vicioso
Serrano..Marcos Serrano
Oso...Aitor Osa?
Jörg...Jaksche
Man they could have more fantasy with the nicknames or taken chiffres instead.
Yeah, if this is true, it sucks. But truth is truth, if they did it.
How many times have you heard of big names pulling out of races with stomach problems, or the like? I always believed them, you know?
Hamilton made such a big deal about his character and about the support of his wife. If this is true...
Maybe cycling at that level is just too hard to do clean? I've trained for IM triathlons doing as much overall mileage as they do, but without the intensity. I did it clean, but I can't imagine how they do that intensity without some help. All I had was peanut butter.
The Festina Affair was pretty terrible (and disillusioning), but this is going to turn out worse. OLN must be crapping themselves right now, a week before the Tour, with Jan under suspicion.
Does Bobke say something about it? He never said anything about Lance and doping--that I remember. Phil, Bob, and Paul clearly love cycling and the Tour too much to say much about all this. Maybe they're complicit? If you follow the sport that closely, how could you not be?
According to the files of the spanish docs, Ullrich got a transfusion at the 1st of May just before the start of the Giro d'Italia, now it's not such a wonder that he had a nice rise in performance(including a victory in the TT) compared to the Tour de Romandie just one week before where he got totally hammered in the mountains and the TT.
OK now that you've read all this I want to ask the Lance cheerleaders..do you STILL think he's clean?
Get a clue.
The Spanish are a filthy lot.
this looks pretty damning for TH....i am very sad to see this. i had my doubts, and have been supportive, but it is hard to ignore information like this.very very sad. roof.
riderrrr wrote:
Wow this is going to be a huge blow-out, probably the biggest in the history of doping.
Now where are the "Hamilton says he is innocent and i believe him" posters?
at least the dookie lacrosse players had the "genius" to use their numbers in the email correspondence references.
riderrrr wrote:
some of the nicknames&numbers that are linked to numbers on blood-bags:
1 - Hijo Rudicio. 2 - Birillo. 4 - Nicolas. 5 - Sevillano. 6 - Sancti Petri. 12 - Guti. 13 - Serrano (alcalde). 14 - RH. 16 - Vicioso. 17 - Porras. 19 - Oso. 20 - Bella (Jörg). 24 - Clasicómano (Luigi). 25 - Amigo de Birillo. 26-Huerta. 32 - Zapatero. 33 - Clasicómano.
Hijo Rudicio..Rudys son=Ullrich?
Sevillano..Sevilla?
Vicioso..Angel Vicioso
Serrano..Marcos Serrano
Oso...Aitor Osa?
Jörg...Jaksche
Man they could have more fantasy with the nicknames or taken chiffres instead.
It should be no suprise that these cyclists are taking performance inhancing drugs. they all are, they all have whether the tests show it or not. We are foolish to believe that athletes in any sport are clean.
riderrrr wrote:
Wow this is going to be a huge blow-out, probably the biggest in the history of doping.
Now where are the "Hamilton says he is innocent and i believe him" posters?
Tyler's next career move should be to get a Hollywood agent, he is brilliant, a very talented actor.
Estana (and Vinokourov) out of TDF?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/jun06/jun27news
Sancti Petri - Santiago Perez?
Guti - Jose Enrique Gutierrez?
RH - Roberto Heras Hernandez?
Zapatero=shoemaker=scarponi(ital.)?=schumacher(ger.)?
Hijo de Rudicio wrote:
Sancti Petri - Santiago Perez?
Guti - Jose Enrique Gutierrez?
RH - Roberto Heras Hernandez?
Zapatero=shoemaker=scarponi(ital.)?=schumacher(ger.)?
Makes sense also considering that Perez and Heras already have been busted.