Just in time for 2009! Operation Puerto Returns

by DemonCats on Jan 17, 2009 11:10 AM EST Comment 13 comments

Spanish judge might re-open the investigation into Operacion Puerto, according to Velonews.

Hmmmmmm.

Is it me or is OP like a case of the clap that is in need of more anti-biotics?

Just when you think you have it licked- drip, drip, drip.

Please will someone in Spain finally put this shit to rest? POR FAVOR!!!

Enough of Sports Minister Lizzavetsky indignantly proclaiming Spanish riders to be maligned, when it seems that they were rotten to the CORE!

It's time for all those Spanish riders to stop hiding behind their lawyers, pony up some blood samples and take their two year suspensions. Fucking putos!

And while they are at it, why not ask the most tested athlete of all time to provide a DNA sample, so he can prove that he is not the mysterious "Cowboy".

But no, most likely, it will be quashed once again and we will go on pretending that the unpunished guilty are clean and keep talking crap about TH, Sevilla, Basso and the other few who were actually punished.

Serenidad YA! Serenidad YA!

Ay Dios!

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It's like the monster in a really bad b-movie, it just wont die.

It seems it is yet another attempt to nail Fuentes and his friends for “endangering public health”. Riders may be called to testify under oath but do not risk any legal repercussions as long as they aren’t caught perjuring themselves. I’m tranquilo that no bikerider would ever dream of doing something like that.

The only fun to be had from Puerto comes from reading Gogle-translations of spanish. This article from El Pais contains a few gems.

by Jens on Jan 17, 2009 11:29 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

DemonCats translation:

Según la Audiencia había riesgo para la salud de los deportistas porque:
According to the Audiencia, there was a risk to the health of the athletes because:

- No se hacían las extracciones ni las transfusiones en locales adecuados.
- Neither the extractions, nor the transfusions were done in adequate locations.

- No se transportaba la sangre extraída en recipientes idóneos.
- The extracted blood was not transported in ideal containers.

- No existía una identificación clara de los donantes.
- There were no clear identifications of the donors.

- No existían garantías de mantenimiento de las temperaturas de conservación de la sangre, que se custodiaban en frigoríficos y arcones de pisos particulares.
- No guarantees existed for the maintenance of temperatures for blood conservation, which were maintained in refrigerators and rooms of particular floors

- El procedimiento era clandestino e incontrolable por parte de las autoridades sanitarias.
- The procedure was clandestine and not under the control of Health Officials.

Racing for Victory and Free Beer!

by DemonCats on Jan 17, 2009 11:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Didn't Jashcke almost die...

from blood that had gone bad and didn’t “flow” well?

And didn’t Jesus Manzano get incredibly sick at one point?

Mmmmmmm. Give me some of that shit!

Once again, “Ay, Dios!”

Racing for Victory and Free Beer!

by DemonCats on Jan 17, 2009 11:50 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The Zombie-effect of stuff like this...

…makes you wonder why they don’t just declare a general amnesty conditional on giving true and complete accounting to some kind of truth and reconciliation commission.

Seriously, everyone before say 2007, just come clean, take your public humiliation — which won’t be as bad the more it becomes clear that “everyone really was doing it” — and move the heck on.

Surely never being able to have done with suspicion and recriminations and baseless or at least unprovable accusations is doing more damage than a full and complete accounting of what everyone basically knows anyhow. Then maybe we can all get over this obsessive need to punish the heck out of the few guys we can catch, even when half the cases are so full of holes / mitigating factors its nearly absurd, and enjoy the sport again.

Gah. But the Germans would probably have a heart attack and decide that this meant that the sport had no credibility.

by Ed K on Jan 17, 2009 2:07 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I also posted this. Didn't mean to squash your post.

I looked before I posted but didn’t figure the “Just in time for 2009!” title was this. Sorry!

by ZoeRochelle on Jan 17, 2009 3:35 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

So does this mean I should leave AV out of the VDS team?

What’s the chance of anyone actually being sentenced? Decisions….

by Albertina on Jan 17, 2009 4:25 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

We went through all of this last year too...............

See MavicMoto’s post below for a levelheaded assessment.

I’d be veeeery surprised if anything came of this. At least when it comes to individual riders.

by Jens on Jan 17, 2009 4:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I'd be inclined to agree....but I have a tendency to paranoia!

by Albertina on Jan 17, 2009 5:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't think I have a single one!

And Basso, my VDS leader, already paid his dues!

Valv.Piti and AC? The other shoe is about to drop bitches!!!

Racing for Victory and Free Beer!

by DemonCats on Jan 17, 2009 9:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It will just get squashed again

too many connected riders and non-cycling related athletes. The fix is in, still

by MavicMoto on Jan 17, 2009 4:26 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

meh

by gavia on Jan 17, 2009 6:27 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

WTF?

Seems that certain bureaucracies in certain countries just want to stay on the radar screen just to move others off it. I know, I know, the judicial process takes a long time and that those bureaucracies can’t control everything, but the timing of this info just seems suspicious.

Thinking hard - really hard - of something witty to say....

by Cyclingrush on Jan 17, 2009 9:23 PM EST reply actions 0 recs