[Wielrennen] Doping #8: Ik ruik bloed!

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Op zaterdag 15 juli 2006 19:45 schreef JohnDDD het volgende:
en ullrich werd in de eerste etappe van vorig jaar ingehaald door lance armstrong, de cleanste renner ooit

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Ullrich and Sevilla miss team's deadline

Are Jan Ullrich and Oscar Sevilla on their way out of the T-Mobile Team permanently? It's beginning to look that way. On Saturday morning, sports communication director Christian Frommert said that the two riders have missed the deadline to prove their innocence in the Operation Puerto affair.

Ullrich and Sevilla have "not met the request of the sponsor and the team management to provide their innocence," the team announced Saturday. The deadline, which was given to them upon their suspension June 30, "already expired on Thursday."

"Now it's in the hands of the attorneys to consider what steps to take next. This is a very difficult situation," Frommert said, and noted that he is confident to have an announcement "by the end of the Tour."

The team suspended Ullrich and Sevilla before the start of the Tour after both were named in the Spanish doping scandal involving Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes. Directeur Sportif and Ullrich mentor Rudy Pevenage was fired over his involvement.

Both riders "assured us before they left Strasbourg on June 30 that they wanted to prove their innocence," Frommert said. This has not yet happened.

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Basso prepares his defence

By Hedwig Kröner, with additional reporting from Shane Stokes

Ever since Ivan Basso returned home to his native Italy on June 30, one day prior to the start of the Tour de France, the now suspended CSC rider has been in close contact with his lawyer, Massimo Martelli, who has taken over not only the preparation of his defence but also his relations to the media.

Martelli, wrote L'Equipe's Philippe Brunel in Wednesday's edition of the paper, travelled to Madrid last week to meet the investigators of the Guardia Civil and the magistrate in charge of the Operacion Puerto affair. The attorney was given a copy of the dossier which led to Basso's exclusion of the Tour.

"There are very few indications," he said, "only suppositions and indirect proof." Martelli added that Basso appeared in none of the video camera-recorded films the officials had used in their investigation, and that the recorded telephone calls which concerned Basso included silences and omissions which could be used for all sorts of interpretations.

"One correspondent tells doctor Fuentes that a 'certain' Basso won. But in Italy for example, the word 'certain' is used for an unknown person," Martelli said. As for the codename 'Birillo', the attorney added that this was an invention of the media. "Birillo is supposed to be the name of Basso's dog. But yesterday, I heard his daughter Domitilla call the dog 'Tarello' - I don't think that at two years of age, a child could be wrong about the name of its dog."

So while Basso is said to train every day, being "very impatient to get out of this dead end", his representative is in contact with the authorities in charge: the UCI, which is in possession of more complete documents on the case, as well as the Anti-Doping section of the Italian Olympic committee, which will let Basso be heard once it has all the information available. It can then either classify the case or else send Basso before the disciplinary commission of his cycling federation, which could ask Basso for a DNA test.

While the winner of the Giro d'Italia is in favour of the idea, his attorney isn't. "It's a traumatic act, and not reliable to 100 percent," Martelli said.

However many other lawyers and scientists would disagree with this last assertion. DNA testing is taken to being 99.5 percent reliable and has been used as the mainstay of countless criminal cases for many years. In fact, if an inaccurate reading does occur, this decreases rather than increases the chances of Basso having a blood match.

Across the border in Switzerland, the president of the Swiss Olympic committee's doping section Gerhard Walter stated several days ago that he felt such testing was vital in the case of Jan Ullrich, another accused of working with Dr. Fuentes. "The reports out of Spain indicate a seemingly clear situation, therefore it's up to the athletes to exonerate themselves," he stated. "If Ullrich, for example, doesn't make a DNA test, then I assume that the charges are true."

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Op zondag 16 juli 2006 00:01 schreef Ericr het volgende:

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Via dezelfde bron als hierboven. Voor Basso ziet het er nog iets positiever uit, het bewijs is flinterdun en een DNA-test zou veel duidelijkheid kunnen scheppen.

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Op zaterdag 15 juli 2006 19:45 schreef JohnDDD het volgende:
en ullrich werd in de eerste etappe van vorig jaar ingehaald door lance armstrong, de cleanste renner ooit

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Op zondag 16 juli 2006 17:53 schreef maril het volgende:
Lekker laf anoniem dus.

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Ullrich says he is "innocent until proven guilty"

By Susan Westemeyer

"Under our legal system, I am, like everyone else, considered innocent until proven guilty," Jan Ullrich said on Monday in his first -- and possibly last -- public statement on his implication in the Operation Puerto doping scandal. He denied that he has gone into hiding, and said that contrary to previous reports, his attorneys submitted a written position to his team within the time limit the team had set.

T-Mobile team manager Olaf Ludwig confirmed to the SID press agency that the repot had been received, however, it said only that it was not up to him to prove his innocence, and that there was no direct evidence to prove his guilt.

Christian Frommert, director of Sports Communications for T-Mobile, confirmed that the statement issued to the team by Ullrich's lawyer's did not meet the standard the team has demanded. T-Mobile had requested a written report proving Ullrich's innocence, which Ullrich had indicated two weeks ago he would submit. Frommert said that what was received was "a statement that no statement proving innocence would be submitted."

Ullrich's manager, Wolfgang Strohband, said that a further explanation "would be possible in the future," without setting a date. In his press release, Ullrich said that on the advice of his attorneys, he would not make any more public statements. Strohband also confirmed that the attorneys had advised Ullrich not to have a DNA test.

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Aldag on Ullrich: "Sometimes we wondered"

What goes on behind closed doors? Even teammates and friends don't always know. Rolf Aldag rode with Jan Ullrich for ten years, and often shared a room with him. But not always, and roommates don't spend all their time together. "Jan often had a single room. And when he shared a double room with a teammate, he would have had time" to use doping products or procedures, Aldag said in an interview on www.sport1.de. "He would often be alone for an hour with a helper in his room. And his roommate wouldn't kick the door in, of course, he would just disappear. Sometimes we wondered what was up when we saw strangers hanging around the hallway."

What does Aldag think of Ullrich's explanations so far? "Not much. Jan must do the DNA test. Then if he was found innocent he could say, 'See!' What he is doing now is not acceptable."

Aldag also speculated over a possible role of Rudy Pevenage in a doping scheme. "Pevenage was always linked very closely to Jan and their ties became even stronger after the change to Coast at the end of 2002. Pevenage bound himself more and more to Jan. And as the pressure increased with the expected battle with Ivan Basso for the Tour victory, perhaps Pevenage lost his nerve. How shall Jan have gotten in contact with the Spaniards? He can't speak the language and would have needed someone to act as middleman."