Sky/Ineos Head Carer of 14 years discovered as member of Aderlass doping ring (Megathread)

[Tim Cahill]

04/06/2025 - Brailsford takes step back from Manchester United to return to Ineos -

Dave Brailsford to step back from Manchester United and return to Ineos

Jim Ratcliffe is planning shake-up at Old Trafford with Brailsford taking up his old role as director of sport at Ineos

www.theguardian.com

21/06/2025 - ARD investegation into doping -

Aicar and "extraterrestrials": ARD documentary reignites doping discussion

"Doping Top Secret: In the Slipstream" - Aicar and "extraterrestrials": ARD documentary reignites doping discussion

Cycling insiders have spent years insisting that professional cycling has learned the lessons of its dark past. New research from the ARD doping editorial team concludes differently.

www.sportschau.de

"Medico Tehna": Slovenian company again under doping spotlight

"Doping Top Secret: In the Slipstream" - "Medico Tehna": Slovenian company again under doping spotlight

In the 2010s, a medical technology company in Ljubljana was a point of contact for Mark S., the Erfurt blood doping doctor. The ARD documentary "In the Slipstream" shows: "Medico Tehna" is still open to dubious business today.

www.sportschau.de

German blood doping ring accomplice a major figure in cycling - Ineos implication

"Doping Top Secret: In the slipstream" - German blood doping ring accomplice a major figure in cycling

ARD can reveal that numerous members or customers of the dismantled Erfurt blood doping network have escaped punishment. An accomplice of doping doctor Mark S. has been working undisturbed for years at leading team Ineos Grenadiers.

www.sportschau.de

13/07/2025 - Paul Kimmage names Ineos head carer of 14 years'David Rozman' as accomplice in Aderlass doping ring

Paul Kimmage: Revealing the links between the Team Sky masseur and a convicted doping doctor at the Tour de France

It was late last Sunday evening when Sebastian Krause arrived in Lille. He had taken a flight from Munich, and a train from Paris and left first thing the next morning in a car to Dunkirk.

www.independent.ie

https://archive.is/UMfAa

14/07/2025 - Rozman wipes social media, Froome deletes all references to Rozman

https://twitter.com/x/status/1944719442677497894

View: https://x.com/Tim_Cahill93/status/1944719442677497894

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945168516690203126

View: https://x.com/NairoInGreen/status/1945168516690203126



16/07/2025 - Brailsford stonewalling all questions regarding affair

Dave Brailsford won’t talk about the 2012 Tour de France

After an ARD investigation linked a longtime staffer to a doctor at the heart of a doping ring, the team has refused to answer questions about the claims.

escapecollective.com

View: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4UzNKcFJ0EzvXc8y4RMc2F?si=RqBm8_YxSS24O0WWISiqLA&nd=1&dlsi=9eb5fb3bcd544b0f
(38:00 Onwards)

Rozman/Dr Schmidt found to have met up 'For a beer' at the team hotel the night before Ineos' win on LPDBF in 2012/Proof from roadbook

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945436658624614863

View: https://x.com/PaulMoutarde/status/1945436658624614863


17/07/2025 - Ineos statement

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945893856353944012

Background on Rozman

David Rožman: S kolesarjem moraš biti odkrit

Slovenski maser se je s Chrisom Froomom veselil številnih zmag na največjih dirkah, zdaj vodi ekipo maserjev Ineosa.

www.delo.si

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Ian Boswell: Chris Froome pushed me to the limit training in Africa

Ian Boswell joined Chris Froome during an early-season training block in South Africa and said it was an 'eye opening' experience

www.cyclingweekly.com

Slovenec, ki masira enega največjih kolesarskih zvezdnikov

Nekdanji kolesar kranjske Save David Rožman je maser v eni najuspešnejših in finančno najmočnejših kolesarskih ekip. Pri Skyu skrbi za njenega prvega moža Chrisa Frooma.

siol.net

 

[Tim Cahill]

To Be Continued, please link if anyone finds anything else.

I have uploaded Rozman's followers and following from Instagram onto a CSV. Not an implication of anything to be clear but worth looking into. Lots of Slovenian cycling links -

IGFollow_rozman3946_132_followers.csv

Shared with Jumpshare

jumpshare.com

IGFollow_d.rozman_235_following.csv

Shared with Jumpshare

jumpshare.com

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Thanks for starting the thread

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Good job, Cahill.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Bernard Kohl claimed Schmidt oversaw the blood doping during the 2008 tour de France on gerolsteiner

Danilo Hondo admitted to blood doping under the guidance of Schmidt

Stefan denifl admitted that Schmidt helped him to blood dope.

Georg preidler admitted that Schmidt helped him to blood dope.

Pettacchi, Koren and bozic were all given bans by the UCI for doping rules in 2012-13 under the guidance of Schmidt. That was when he was also present at the team sky tour de France hotels.

Kristian durasek was banned for blood doping under Schmidt in 2017

 

[ontheroad]

The plot thickens. There’s definitely a great movie in this when it’s over.

 

[Rob5091]

Thanks for starting the thread and doing a timeline. It's a lot easier to follow previous events with a timeline.

Rozman's doping supplier (Maestro Balthazar - from the TV cartoon show, Professor Balthaazar, I suppose) I would guess is a Slovenian or Balkan. The journalists in Slovenia should be all over this, but how popular would it be if their sporting hero Pogacar (and Roglic) are in a sport with hidden medical manipulation? Questions might get asked about the GOAT and the shiny, happy chap persona (not to mention his team).

I suppose we'll have to rely on the French to, once again, pop the PR bubble. I see L'Equipe have picked up the story.

 

[Tim Cahill]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1945893856353944012

Ineos attempt to paint this as a 'media allegation' when the information comes from court documents, an exercise in PR management.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

So is this guy connected to Humanplasma as well, or just Aderlass? As Schmidt obviously goes back to that if he's involved with Kohl. This would then tie him together with Menchov, who was one of those alleged to be involved in Humanplasma, hence his after-the-fact erasure from a number of races in the era... which then potentially links us to Team Rabobank and Geert Leinders, no?

 

[burning]

I did enjoy reading this thread, I wanted to say thanks here. I

I have not ever heard of him before, which makes me believe that he was smart to fly under the radar, but of course he was being sycophantic on social media on Froome because he thought he would not be noticed

 

[Saint Unix]

Rozman sounds like he's just another member of the decades-old cast of no-name middlemen who are well below or even disconnected completely from the team's roster and leadership. Someone who flies totally under the radar or who has just enough of an excuse to always be around, but in a role minor enough that they avoid any major scrutiny. Armstrong's Motoman comes to mind, for example.

 

[b0ydman]

...Someone who flies totally under the radar or who has just enough of an excuse to always be around, but in a role minor enough that they avoid any major scrutiny.

Sounds like Epstein

 

[Rob5091]

Re: Ineos press statement

The International Testing Agency was not formed until 2018 so 2012 is a bit before their time. Even so, they are the UCI's arm of anti-doping now, so Raudenski & Co should be all over this as they are desperate for a whistleblower to prove their worth. The court documents alone should warrent an investigation.

The bigger question is who should take this up? The UCI should do something, WADA should do something, ITA should definitely do something, but what about the Police and the legal ramifications? The doping task force of the Munich police lead the Schmidt investigation, so is it down to them?

How this is taken by Ineos new sponsor, Total Energies, would be interesting to know. Good timing!

Edit- with some time to read some more, I see that,
https://www.sportschau.de/doping/ge...indschatten-aderlass-text-1-englisch-100.html

The ITA, which has only been responsible for cycling since 2021, stated that it had investigated unspecified circumstances "in early 2025" after receiving "new information from the German authorities" – apparently after it had got wind of the ARD's investigations.

"The outcome of this investigation did not allow the ITA to refer a potential case to the UCI," both organisations said in almost identical statements. Apparently, their hands were tied due to the statute of limitations – no new grounds for suspicion were found.

also the German Police said,

Many of the suspected offences had already exceeded the statute of limitations under criminal law.

Ideally, Froome, Rozman and a whole bunch of Team Sky members (including support staff) from that time should be quized by ITA & UCI, because Rozman was n't the only guy at Sky who knew what was going on.
If ASO can threaten PCS because of their van, then Ineos can well get a fine for "bringing the sport into disrepute". (rule 28.1 https://storage-aso.lequipe.fr/ASO/cycling_tdf/tdf2025-reglement-v2.pdf )

 

[Squire]

If ASO can threaten PCS because of their van

I know this is off-topic, but what?!

On topic, it's nice to see some actual smoke and fire harking back to the glory days of The Clinic. There were so many shady connections around Team Sky that something more had to come up sooner or later. Guess we have to wait another ten or so years for some UAE stuff.

 

[Rico044]

In Thomas Dekker's book, at one point, he refers to his and Boogard's Slovenian connection for undetectable EPO. I wonder if it is this guy?