Jaksche to name names?
Posted June 30th, 2007 in Dope
A bit of Monday madness coming.
German Jörg Jaksche, one of dozens of cyclists implicated in the Operación Puerto doping scandal which erupted last year, is set to make a series of stunning revelations about current doping practices.
Jaksche’s lawyer Michael Lehner said on Friday the German, who has protested his innocence but been suspended from all competition due to his alleged links to the affair, will reveal all in German weekly magazine Der Spiegel on Monday.[…]
Lehner said the former Liberty Seguros rider “will not just admit to doping himself, but will shed light on what really goes on in the peloton, and who the main (doping) protagonists are.”
And importantly.
As well as making revelations, his lawyer said he is ready to act as a witness for the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), the UCI and legal authorities.
Is the code about to be broken?
Update: The International Herald Tribune has some early quotes from the Der Spiegel story. What stands out is this.
During his career, Jaksche also rode for Polti, Team Telekom, Once, CSC and Liberty Seguros and he told Spiegel that doping was either actively conducted by the team leadership or tolerated.
“Of course, no one held my arm for the injection, but team leaders, who got rich off you in the past, who supplied the things, they are now pretending to push for a clean sport,” Jaksche told Spiegel.
Update: Vinokourov protests too much and throws a couple of other guys under a bus.
All I did was listen to people, like Mario Cipollini, who said great things. (Lance) Armstrong also worked with him. I didn’t want to miss out on this experience, I contacted him.
I’ll bet. Or as Jörg Jaksche puts it so succinctly.
The logic is you adjust your performance level to the rest, because everyone is doing it..
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What others have to say…
well, the UCI are utterly incompetent, and turn a blind eye to Armstrong, so they deserve to cop it.
The ASO were glad of the Armstrong 7 years no matter what Jean Marie Leblanc was spouting, cos he brought big corporate sponsors from good ol’ US’o'A.
The race is better without everyone getting 27 jabs and 800 mls of packed cells in the rest days.
Folks are more likely to bonk, the climbers can actually take advantage of their power to weight.
Why do you think the climber has been a rarity in the last dozen years, why has Jalabert taken polka dot wins.
Jiminez, Rasmussen, Pantani, Simoni, Virenque… really, there have been a derth of climbing talent.
The Postal Bus has driven the pace to hard, for too long.
Wonder what the Giro guys like Sella, Perez Caupio, Rujano, could do if the peloton was clean. Ofcourse, those guys were juiced too, but I think their advantage is exacerbated when everyone is clean.
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Hmmm. We’ll see if he is ready to be the next Manzano. If so, he probably has more credibility.
Odd how all of this stuff always manages to come to a head just before the Tour de France.