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

[Rob5091]

Like some bad reccuring nightmare, another trip down memory lane,
The Parliamentary investigation into Team Sky. "The Whistleblowers" statement- from 2017
https://data.parliament.uk/writtene.../combatting-doping-in-sport/written/69004.pdf

From 2010 -
https://cyclinginc.com/team-sky-pul...following-the-tragic-death-of-txema-gonzalez/

From 2020 - Dr Freeman seems to use a dead soigneour to throw Dr David Hulse under the bus -
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1100166/

To follow up on Dr Freeman's blaming Dr Hulse for masseur/soigneur Txema Gonzalez's death back in 2010

https://siol.net/sportal/kolesarstvo/ekipa-sky-ne-bo-nadaljevala-dirke-po-spaniji-372863 (from Sept 4, 2010)

''Txema is said to have contracted a viral infection. This virus is believed to have a major portion of the world's population in it. Unfortunately, Txema did not have any antibodies in him. On Saturday night, he was stung by an insect in the leg and immediately developed a fever. His leg was severely swollen and he wanted to go to the hospital in Vittorio in the morning, but the doctors would not allow him to do so. He was immediately taken to a hospital in Seville, where Txema mentioned that half of the team had stomach problems. The doctors then probably focused too much on this fact and unfortunately the colleague died," Filip Tišma, who works as a mechanic at Team Sky, told Sportal. Txema Gonzalez died of a bacterial infection and sepsis five days later in a hospital in Seville.

NB! Doctors plural, but if Hulse was one of them .... well it does not look good.

 

[Rob5091]

No prying eyes in your own "hotel" - very nice it is too!
https://www.bicikel.com/novica/nik-burjek-iz-monaka-za-sky-(video) (from 2016 -google translate)

A few days ago, fi'zi:k published a post about the house that Team Sky owns in Monaco, where many of their riders live. The contribution also features Slovenian Nik Burjek. "We use the house for meetings, this is where the riders get to know each other before training ... We have everything we need in the house. We have a garage with all the accessories a mechanic needs. Nice living room with TV, kitchen. There's a massage area on the second floor," Burjek said, among other things. ...."We can also use the house as a small hotel. There are two bedrooms. Riders can come here during the two races,"

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZI_iOe3DEE

Jun 8, 2017 A day with Team Sky at their team house in Monaco.

Nik Burjek is another Slovenian masseur/soigneur who went from Team Sky/Ineos to Bahrain in 2019 (same time as 2 Slovenian mechanics)
https://siol.net/sportal/kolesarstvo/zlata-vredna-slovenska-pomoc-sredi-dirke-po-franciji-583490

 

[Rob5091]

22/07/2013 - Rozman makes a lot of fawning remarks about Froome, but also an interesting comment with recent developments in mind (google translate)
https://siol.net/sportal/kolesarstvo/david-rozman-froome-bo-zmagal-se-na-nekaj-tourih-233579

"Froome would have won even more stages if he hadn't been completely destroyed by the press with questions about doping. We're all happy that the race is over, because you just can't believe what comes to the press's mind. Froome will become bigger in cycling than Lance Armstrong was in the years to come, but in the opposite direction. He is the greatest anti-doping fighter and an extraordinary man.

A strange comment about the press stopping Froome winning more stages at the Tour.

 

[Rob5091]

More on Dr Schmidt's "helper" neo-nazi Dirk Q (real name Dirk Quiatkowski) and his connections and convictions. Was he blackmailing Schmidt or just using him for extra cash? (article in German)
https://rechercheportalerfurt.noblo...m-erfurter-doping-skandal-operation-aderlass/

 

[Rob5091]

The Tiernan-Locke saga is worth a re-read in light of the ongoing Rozman story - (from 2021)
https://www.cyclingnews.com/feature...ce-policy-was-a-total-joke-says-former-rider/

Tiernan-Locke claims there were 'two speeds' of medical care at British team ... "In my mind he [doctor Alan Farrell] was put there as a bit of a front so they could say that they had a guy with no history of cycling and that they were clean. Freeman, especially the neo-pros, they didn’t have much to do with him. He was occasionally at races but he was mainly with Bradley Wiggins. ... In 2016, Tiernan-Locke told the media that Freeman had offered him the controversial and now-banned painkiller Tramadol at the 2013 World Championships.

Of course Doc Freeman was the man ordering Testogel in May 2011 and who went onto be named winner and second at the Vuleta in 2011? Froome and Wiggins. Who else was working at Sky (as a freelance consultant) in 2011? Dr Leinders.
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/dr...rone-knowing-or-believing-it-was-for-a-rider/
https://road.cc/content/news/68664-...ll-no-longer-work-dutch-doctor-geert-leinders

Dr Leinders, who had worked for it since December 2010.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

JTL didn't go to the Worlds in 2013, though, I presume they must mean 2012 with his crazy breakout with Endura (shoutout Brian Smith!). Unless he's saying he was basically enticed to be selected if he would use tramadol.

 

[Rob5091]

JTL didn't go to the Worlds in 2013, though, I presume they must mean 2012 with his crazy breakout with Endura (shoutout Brian Smith!). Unless he's saying he was basically enticed to be selected if he would use tramadol.

Edit - It sounds like the later to be honest. I see it was 2012 -see https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/fo...e-says-great-britain-offered-tramadol-freely/

Tiernan-Locke also revealed that the Great Britain team, at the 2012 World Championships, offered riders Tramadol "freely around," but he did not take it. "I wasn't in any pain so I didn't need to take it, and that was offered freely around. It just didn't sit well with me at the time. I thought, 'I'm not in any pain', why would I want a painkiller?'"

An interesting titbit, when JTL was tearing up races in 2012 for Endura Racing, one of his then teammates is now assistant sports director at Ineos, Zak Dempster (small world pro cycling).
edit - I see he did do 2012 WC RR https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/world-championship/2012/startlist/

 

[Rob5091]

Of course, further evidence of "team doping" is the,

large quantities of triamcinolone - the substance Bradley Wiggins was legally given in the build-up to three Grand Tours between 2011 and 2013. .... during a CMS Select Committee hearing on Wednesday, UKAD CEO Nicole Sapstead said that records showed much more of the drug had been ordered than would have been necessary for a TUE prescription.

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bradley-wiggins-doctor-provided-team-sky-staff-with-triamcinolone/
and
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/bradley-wigginss-doctor-attempts-to-explain-excessive-drug-orders

Records of who got the triamcinolone have of course gone missing on Doc Freeman's many laptops.

 

[Tim Cahill]

More on Dr Schmidt's "helper" neo-nazi Dirk Q (real name Dirk Quiatkowski) and his connections and convictions. Was he blackmailing Schmidt or just using him for extra cash? (article in German)
https://rechercheportalerfurt.noblo...m-erfurter-doping-skandal-operation-aderlass/

This Neo Nazi addition is hilarious, didn't know about that character, I actually found the guys facebook, this was one of his only viewable posts.

https://www.facebook.com/dirk.quiatkowski/posts/pfbid021c9SoGeHk2DLQfdiAzBUoEd4NAUFhumkgCa2w58TehqR3g83q23k3yfYwXaGYNcml

View: https://www.facebook.com/dirk.quiatkowski/posts/pfbid021c9SoGeHk2DLQfdiAzBUoEd4NAUFhumkgCa2w58TehqR3g83q23k3yfYwXaGYNcml


On the 17th of July 2013 no less, the day of Froome's tt victory in the tour, maybe he was a big Contador fan!

 

[Rob5091]

Das ist wieder mal ein Tag wo ich töten könnte!
Google translate gives us, "This is another day where I could kill!"

As the guy has already killed one guy, I'm not sure I'd like to meet him in a bad mood.