The doctor Eufemiano Fuentes has declared that, for Barcelona’92 Olympic Gamesorder received from Government of Spain during the preparation of the “do what you have to do, but we want medals” Olympic Games. Barcelona’92 continues to be the best Games in history for Spain, with 22 medals (13 gold, 7 silver and 2 bronze).
In a video recorded with a hidden camera in 2021, which will be released tomorrow, Friday, as part of a report by ARD (German public television) about doping at the Olympics and which was previewed on Thursday, Fuentes stressed that he worked “in the shadows for four years” and that the only restrictions he received were no positive tests for doping or “problems in health” originated. from the medical assistance given to the athletes.
“That was a strategy so that I could work freely, without pressure, without press, with anyone,” he explained.
According to the doctor, the Spanish used methods and personnel that helped the countries around USSRas the GDRto get the preparation: “We copy the system of the countries of eastern block. We had money to exchange information East Germany, Poland, RussiaCzech doctors, from all Eastern countries, and we buy the information with dollars.
Fuentes emphasized that the chosen method, which was already prohibited, was blood doping, because, according to him, it was “safer, cleaner and easier” to “control the blood.”
“Your own blood, taken long ago, is re-transfused shortly before the competition, otherwise you would not have achieved such good results,” he details in the extract, while introducing that the blood agent is erythropoietin . (EPO) “there was no need” then, but “there it was.”
The health worker, who was condemned by ‘Operation Port’expanded that he also used “other doping classics”, such as the treatment he applied to the athlete Cayetano Cornetto whom, he said, “hormones, growth hormones, testosterone, anabolic steroids” would have been administered.
Fuentes said in front of hidden cameras that he was no longer actively involved in blood doping but that he knew “others were doing it.”
Source: La Verdad
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