Spanish Court passes judgement on Fuentes - 600,000 Euro

by Monty. on Oct 27, 2009 10:16 AM EDT

You really can't make this stuff up any more, can you. A court in Valencia has decided that the local government is due to pay compensation to Dr Fuentes for his "services" as "Team Doctor" between 2003 and 2006. That's 150,000 Euro per year. That's what Tuttobici has in a brief summary taken from local Spanish paper Las Provincias. There's no explanation of why he wasn't paid for four years, nor why he continued working for them. Another of those Spanish mysteries, I guess.

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Seriously?

That’s Spain, so tough on doping.

by majope on Oct 27, 2009 10:58 AM EDT reply actions

Tough on doping, tough on the causers of doping …

pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway

by fmk on Oct 28, 2009 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Bizarre

I did wonder what that was about – I saw the headline, and was like, wtf?! Thanks for saving me the trouble of actually reading the article.

by Jen See on Oct 27, 2009 1:12 PM EDT reply actions

Those snarky quotation marks!

Those snarky quotation marks make it seem like he masqerading at nights playing doctor.

"As you can imagine, there are better places to have your birthday party than in some village called Mushny Mush Mishme." --The Wisdom of Jens

by Josenka on Oct 27, 2009 1:16 PM EDT reply actions

What do you mean "snarky quotation marks"?

Those are direct (albeit translated) quotes from the article. ;-)

by civetta on Oct 27, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions

He practically was masquerading

Fuentes is a gynecologist.

by Softie on Oct 28, 2009 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions

A cunning linguistic trick.

(It was a setup! I’ll get me coat.)

by tedvdw on Oct 28, 2009 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions

Just like Kenny Everett used to say

all done in the best possible taste.

by Monty. on Oct 28, 2009 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Cool

so I can do snark with just a quotation mark now? Does that make me the PdC equivalent of Sean Connery and his magic eyebrows?

by Monty. on Oct 28, 2009 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions

awesome

just awesome.

by ant1 on Oct 27, 2009 1:43 PM EDT reply actions

Here's an interesting little clip

that I picked up through velo-club. It’s a little video clip where Johnny Halliday talks about a magical blood treatment that his mate Zidane recommended to him where a Swiss clinic draws out blood, “oxygenates” it, and then pumps it back in. Because using your lungs is just so, so, old-fashioned. (No translation from the French because I seem to miss just enough words for me not to come up with something totally reliable.)

by Monty. on Oct 28, 2009 1:51 PM EDT reply actions

a que johnny il est con

Yeah, that’s pretty good. they talk about how a bunch of unusual (i.e. banned) products were found at AC Juventus. Then the interviewer asks johnny if it’s true that zidane gave him some advice about a place in switzerland where they perform a wonderful revitilization and that johnny went there. He replies that he went there and it was awesome, they take out some of your blood, they “oxigenate” it, then put it back in, and that zidane goes there twice a year.

by ant1 on Oct 28, 2009 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions