Doping in Austria

[Dekker2.0]

Very weird summary by Susan.. They are merely questioning how their photoes ended up in the Aderlass dossier followed by some crazy speculations from Preidler

 

[samhocking]

Think it depends what Preidler really means where he says "there could be other interesting interlocutors in the bloodletting context in Germany."

Schmidt says he has not looked after any others than those he had already mentioned and so those we do know of are those prosecuted already. Clearly it's in Schmidt's lawyers interest to minimise the number of known athletes and the trial will use all the evidence gathered from Preidler and the known athletes to add to that list if any others existed. At this stage, I agree though, it's just Preidler shown photos of Dumo & Roglic and asked to talk about them at this stage.

 

[ppanther92]

Yes and no. Schmidt using a Slovenian blood bank is in my opinion at least a trace that should be followed. The rest, like the training camp of Dumoulin after which he was flying according to Preidler (and winning the Giro) is speculation, I agree.

And the quoted article also states that the photos/names of Roglic and Dumoulin were not included in the questioning after Preidler's remark but already before and to other people.

 

[F_Cance]

Think it depends what Preidler really means where he says "there could be other interesting interlocutors in the bloodletting context in Germany."

I think he is referring to active riders. It was widely reported that some Aderlass riders/athletes are still active. There was lots of talk about a specific german rider being involved, but not in the media or anything.

 

[samhocking]

The prosecutor a couple of months ago said there are no more names, no more shocks to come. There is a rider yet to be announced, but nothing alarming to come now from cycling, so I unless he was bluffing, it's probably it now in terms of cycling and Aderlass imo.

 

[pastronef]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1350032492976349185

View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1350032492976349185

 

[pastronef]

the unnamed German rider is Bjorn Thurau

https://twitter.com/x/status/1353386754376671232

View: https://www.twitter.com/CyclingEve/status/1353386754376671232

 

[BullsFan22]

I’ll take this ‘operation’ a little more seriously when some actual big names get named, not some amateurs nobody has ever heard of or a few old pros who haven’t been relevant in years.

 

[pastronef]

well at least there are PROVEN names and PROVEN peds (compared with the total storm regarding Freeman going on, nobody gives a fyck about Aderlass)

Preidler
Denifl
Koren
Durasek
Bozic
(Hondo and Petacchi)

Dr Schmidt
Milan Erzen

 

[ppanther92]

I mean sure, those guys are now proven dopers. But then again, no one was particular successful (unless Petacchi ofc) or showed extreme jumps or improvements. Just kind of proves that you only really get into troubles if you don't have a top-notch program set up for you but have to do it on your own. And even then you will pass all the tests and it takes authorities to get involved for something to happen.

 

[Red Rick]

I mean sure, those guys are now proven dopers. But then again, no one was particular successful (unless Petacchi ofc) or showed extreme jumps or improvements. Just kind of proves that you only really get into troubles if you don't have a top-notch program set up for you but have to do it on your own. And even then you will pass all the tests and it takes authorities to get involved for something to happen.

Thankfully we have Froome getting off for a positive other riders get banned for all the time, which shows you all you need to know.