Operación Puerto doping case

The Operación Puerto doping case (meaning Operation Mountain pass)Inside the Blood Doping Investigation is a doping investigation in Spain. It started in May 2006.

Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes is accused of giving banned doping drugs to 200 professional athletes.

Fuentes doped a lot of well known tennis and football starsAntonio J. Salmerón, [http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/sep06/sep24news2 Manzano: "Well-known footballers" also clients of Fuentes, CyclingNews, September 24, 2006 but most attention was on the fairly small number of professional road cyclists that were named in the investigation.Fuentes: "Me indigna la filtración selectiva", El Pais, July 5, 2006

By May 2007, fifteen have been proved not guilty, but three have admitted doping or have had very much evidence of blood doping placed before them.Puerto blood confirmed to be Ullrich's, CyclingNews, April 4, 2007

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Category:Doping cases in sport
Category:Doping cases in cycling