Fuentes admits providing Footballers
Eufemiano Fuentes admitted today that he provided athletes from different sports with doping substances or methods. Beneath cyclists he worked with track and field athletes, boxers, tennis and football players. He admitted providing them with blood transfusions.
Fuentes referred with this statement to 2006. Jörg Jaksche talked about 2006 some days ago with the Telegraph where he described a meeting with german police officials.
Jaksche said that Fuentes was very proud of his work for other sports. Jaksche mentioned again that German officials asked him, if Fuentes treated him in Frankfurt in 2006. „I said no because normally he would only go to Germany if there was a stage of the Tour de France there but I think the truth is in 2006 there was the soccer World Cup in Germany and the German police knew something about it but didn’t have the whole information“, the Telegraph quotes Jaksche.
There were no more questions about football at all. The judge concentrated on cycling. The World Anti-Doping-Agency WADA requested today three things. First they asked to summon Tyler Hamilton to court as a witness, judge Julia Patricia Santamaría accepted. Second WADA wants to examine all blood-bags. Santamaría will decide this request on Friday. And third, WADA tried to convince the court to investigate the computer of Fuentes. The judgde refused because of alleged privacy.
We reported on Fuentes’ connections to football over here. Guest author Jonathan Sachse reports on the Fuentes trial in his personal blog (in German).
