deValtos said:
To clarify, apparently the substance was not illegal but he broke the no-needle policy.
Still in rumours stage, nothing official yet.
Well, rumour, he has been charged, that's hardly a rumour. He hasn't been convicted yet of course, I wonder how they're going to prove he actually broke the no-needle policy, that could be hard.
I don't think it has been reported before here, but two cyclocross riders have been charged as well with breaking the no-needle policy, Tom Meeusen and Laurens Sweeck. Not for ozone-therapy, but using a transfusion containing nutrition/medicine for sick babies (vaminolact), apparently for recuperation. The product itself isn't banned, but the method of using it is (transfusion). Sweeck claims he did buy the product, but drank it diluted with fruit juice. But according to experts, using the quantity he claims to have taken would be as useful as drinking a glass of milk. Maybe the most bizarre thing of this case is that when he bought this medicine for sick babies, he was 17 years old...what a bizarre world cycling can be.
Meeusen has a harder time denying the used the product properly. In 2012 in his camper at a cross a transfusion kit containing this product was found after an anonymous tip. It's hard to imagine he won't hang for this, for the other riders it will be interesting to see if they can prove whether they actually injected anything.