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Here is Le Monde's story on Contador and the Puerto files, in English
Sorry for my poor Franche... --Shayana Kadidal
------------------------------------- http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,...-932152,0.html The organizers of the race had warned that racers "named" in the Puerto files could not start the Tour. This is the principle that impelled the exclusion of the German Jan Ullrich and the Italian Ivan Basso in 2006. "In any case the Contador's name could not be linked to the clientele of Fuentes," argued the boss of the Tour, Patrice Clerk, on Thursday, July 26, when the Spaniard slipped on the yellow jersey. Besides hundreds of pouches of blood, the Guardia Civil seized, in the spring 2006, many documents where the doctor recorded treatments and indications for his numerous "clients". According to our information, the name Alberto Contador appears several times in these documents. And, in contrast what Patrice Clerk claimed, Contador was not simply "quoted in the framework of telephone conversations for results of races" by chance. In the files, to which le Monde had access, the investigators note that "in the document 3 appear marked in different manners the names of the racers: Dariuz Baranowsky, Joseba Beloki, Gianpaolo Caruso, Alberto Contador (...) ". This piece is part of "the documentation relating to the illicit presumed activities" of Dr. Fuentes, seized in one of his Madrid apartments. The investigators specify that the name Alberto Contador appears under the initials "A.C." in another document of Fuentes. "On the back of document 31 are handwritten annotations with the title 'Individualization' where various racers on the Liberty Seguros-Würth Team are identified by their initials: R.H. (Roberto Heras), M.S. (Marcos Serrano), J.B. (Joseba Beloki) (...) A.C. (Alberto Contador)." According to the Guardia Civil, these documents correspond to the planning of the 2005 season for Liberty Seguros. It was in January 2005 that Alberto Contador returned to competition after his brain operation in the spring 2004. As in the cases of Spanish Roberto Heras, Joseba Beloki or Marcos Serrano, most of the racers named in these documents are today without a team or on second division squads. "DIFFERENT RIDERS GET TREATED DIFFERENTLY" In contrast to a Roberto Heras or a Joseba Beloki, the investigatory report did not reveal annotations mentioning doping products opposite the name Alberto Contador. The case of Gianpaolo Caruso is, on the other hand, similar to Contador's. Now if the Spanish federation did not deem it worthy to go after their rider, the Antidoping prosecutor of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) required a two year suspension for Gianpaolo Caruso. "It's completely extraordinary that Contador can continue to race without being worried about Operation Puerto while CONI demanded that Caruso be suspended for two years. There isn't more in the dossier against Caruso than against Contador," said Jörg Jaksche, former team member of the Spaniard with Liberty Seguros, to Le Monde. The German racer had caused a sensation before the Tour began by publicly admitting taking drugs with the assistance of Dr. Fuentes when he rode for the Spanish team. "There is different treatment according to who the rider is," deplores Jaksche, who says he related the history of his life as a doped cyclist for twenty hours to the German federal police on Wednesday the 25th and Thursday July 26th. Alberto Contador himself had been questioned scarcely ten minutes, in December 2006, by the magistrate charged with the Puerto dossier. In front of Judge Antonio Serrano, Contador declared he did not know Eufemiano Fuentes. He also refused to submit to DNA sampling that could have verified that certain blood pockets, recovered from the apartments Fuentes performed autologous transfusions in, were destined for him. |
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