MADRID, May 23, 2013 (AFP) - The president of the Spanish sports council, Miguel Cardenal, has become the latest senior figure to criticise the judge's decision in the Operation Puerto trial to deny anti-doping authorities access to over 200 blood bags seized from Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. Despite finding Fuentes guilty of endangering public health by carrying out blood extractions … [Read more...]
Spanish Politician Miguel Cardenal Criticizes Operation Puerto Ruling
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Prosecutor To Appeal Operation Puerto Blood Bag Destruction
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MADRID, May 17, 2013 (AFP) - The public prosecutor in the Operation Puerto case in which Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes was sentenced to a year in prison has signaled its intention to appeal his sentence and the destruction of more than 200 blood bags seized from his apartments. Fuentes was found guilty of endangering public health along with one of his co-accused Jose Ignacio Labarta, … [Read more...]
UCI To Appeal Puerto Blood Bags Decision
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MADRID, May 10, 2013 (AFP) - The International Cycling Union (UCI) confirmed on Friday they will appeal against the decision by a Spanish court to refuse access to more than 200 sachets of blood that were seized in the Operation Puerto case against disgraced Dr Eufemiano Fuentes. "The UCI can confirm that it will appeal the decision of the Madrid court of 29 April not to release to the … [Read more...]
Operation Puerto Fuentes Sentenced To One Year In Doping Case
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by Kieran CANNING MADRID, Spain, April 30, 2013 (AFP) - A Spanish court on Tuesday sentenced a medical doctor who performed blood transfusions on top cyclists to a year in prison for endangering public health in a case keenly watched because of claims the practice extended to other sports. Judge Julia Patricia Santamaria said that Eufemiano Fuentes, 57, offered the blood … [Read more...]
Operation Puerto Trial Verdict Epected Next Week
April 24, 2013 By Leave a Comment
MADRID, April 24, 2013 (AFP) - The verdict from the Operation Puerto trial, in which a medical doctor is accused of endangering public health by performing blood transfusions on a number of high-profile cyclists, will be delivered next week, a court spokesman said on Wednesday. "The verdict will be made public early afternoon on Tuesday April 30," the spokesman from the court in … [Read more...]
Operation Puerto Doping Trial Reaches Climax
April 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
by Kieran Canning MADRID, April 1, 2013 (AFP) - The Operation Puerto doping trial involving Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes and four co-accused is set to conclude on Tuesday with the judge ruling on whether the five were guilty of endangering public health. Fuentes is on trial with his sister and fellow doctor Yolanda as well as Manolo Saiz, Vicente Belda and Ignacio Labarta who held … [Read more...]
Blood-Doping Doctor Should Be Jailed Says Opertion Puerto Prosecutor
March 1, 2013 By Leave a Comment
MADRID, March 16, 2013 - Spanish prosecutors on Friday called for the doctor at the center of a high-profile blood doping racket in professional cycling to be jailed for two years, as they wound up their case. Public prosecutor Rosa Calero said that Eufemiano Fuentes should be imprisoned as he was the "soul and ideologist" of a "fraudulent and punishable" network whose intention was to … [Read more...]
CONI Set To Probe Cipollini Operation Puerto Doping Allegations
February 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
MILAN, Feb 11, 2013 - Italy's Olympic Committee (CONI) said Monday it had launched a probe following newspaper allegations that retired cyclist Mario Cipollini was a client of a sports doctor currently on trial in Spain on doping charges. Cipollini, world champion in 2002, was accused Saturday by La Gazzetta dello Sport of being a client of Doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, who is … [Read more...]
Mario Cipollini Named In Operation Puerto Case
February 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
MILAN, Feb 9, 2013 (AFP) - Retired Italian cycling star Mario Cipollini used a sophisticated doping programme designed by a sports doctor currently standing trial in Spain, a report claimed Saturday. At the 'Operation Puerto' trial which opened in Madrid last week, Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes faced charges of supplying and administering banned doping products to a number of top … [Read more...]
Spanish ‘Doping’ Case To Avoid Naming Names
January 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
by Gabriel RUBIO-GIRON MADRID, Jan 30, 2013 (AFP) - A Spanish judge on Wednesday refused to demand that the suspected mastermind of one of the sporting world's biggest blood doping rackets provide the names of the athletes implicated in the scandal. The ruling in the so-called "Operation Puerto" case could avert a huge fall-out from the high-profile trial, with suspects across the … [Read more...]