It turns out that Dr. "Tony the Miracle Man" Galea, Gabriela Szabo and Paula Radcliffe all used Actovegin.
Ms. Radcliffe and Ms. Szabo both trained in Albuquerque and Font-Romeu.
For example:
"I was Paula’s physical therapist for 14 years and when she was training I spent weeks living with her and her husband Gary, often at high-altitude camps in Albuquerque or Font Romeu."
"I never saw anything suspicious."
"In Font Romeu Gary and Paula’s bedroom was right next to mine, to the point where if I needed to go to the toilet at 2am I crept out barefoot and wouldn’t flush because I didn’t want to wake them. I was right on top of them every day; I would know if she had cheated."
"I remember in Font Romeu in 2001 or 2002, Paula and Gary saw some suspicious vials in a local dumpster when emptying their rubbish. Their response was to immediately contact the authorities. People who don’t know Paula might say her strident anti-doping position was a clever act. But she was asking for her blood to be frozen back in 2002. There is only one logical reason for that. She knew she was doing it the right way and she wanted those who weren’t to be caught."
"Paula, too, is determined to do more to clear her name in the coming weeks. Because she knows what is at stake. These allegations threaten to destroy everything she has stood for during the past two decades. It would destroy her achievements, her reputation and her ambitions to work with the IAAF in trying to clean up sport.
"When the Sunday Times approached her at the Anniversary Games she didn’t see it coming. She was completely shell-shocked. That is why her immediate reaction was: if you print my name I will sue you because I am a clean athlete. Once she had thought about it, her instinct was to be open and she tried to approach the Sunday Times journalist David Walsh, who wrote her autobiography a decade ago, but he wasn’t able to cooperate because of his paper’s involvement.
"At that time I told Paula she had two choices. You can explain the suspicious values and be proactive. Or you can sit on it and it will either become a monster of a story or die a death, and that is your choice. Maybe she took the wrong one, but she knows the truth must prevail here. And if Paula can add anything scientifically to bring the truth out she will. I have told Paula not to hide from it. And from now on she won’t.
"I know that the last 48 hours has been like putting a dagger through her both ways."
Has Jos Hermens talked with Lornah Kiplagat (NED) or Ms. Gabriela Szabo recently?
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/historic/32010549.html
That was a really fun night at the party with Jos and President-Lord Sebastian.
