Posted on 08/01/2007 2:26:45 PM PDT by hardback
German authorities said yesterday they have received documents from doping expert Werner Franke which he claims show the Tour de France winner, Alberto Contador, was involved in doping.
Franke said he has documents from last year's Operation Puerto investigation in Spain which show that the Spaniard, who won the drug-marred race on Sunday, had taken HMG-Lepori as a testosterone booster and an asthma product called TGN.
"We can confirm we have received the documents, and they will be incorporated into procedures of the district attorney's office," said Christian Brockert, a spokesman for Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office.
Brockert said the federal office will meet with the district attorney's office deemed to be responsible and assess the documents.
Contador, who rides for the Discovery Channel team, missed the 2006 Tour when his former team, Liberty, was disqualified because he and four other riders - plus the team director and doctor - were allegedly linked to Operation Puerto.
Franke, a molecular biologist, is not the first to say he possesses copies of the Operation Puerto documents in which Contador's name surfaces. France's Le Monde newspaper, along with several German ones, have printed parts of documents.
Franke apparently has acquired other documents, saying only he got them "in my briefcase" while Spanish police were not watching.
(Excerpt) Read more at sport.guardian.co.uk ...
And “all y’all’s” is plural possessive...
Do we know who won the 2006 TdF yet?
Maybe that and this year’s thing will be settled by the time the 2010 race starts...
I realized that. That’s why I put the winky face with it.
Aeronaut... I didn’t realize you were in Minnesota! I’m praying that you and your family and friends are safe. Please check in when you can, FRiend...
And that’s why I put a smiley on mine.
Have a good day, now. :-)
Hey Aeronaut;
Hope things are OK for you and yours. I have family down in the south end of the state around Spring Valley.
Thanks for the concern everyone. My wife and I are fine. We are in a St. Paul suburb, not really very close to the bridge. We were at the supper table when the news broke. It will be a major bottleneck for a long time.
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