SPAIN: CYCLE RACING - Former German cyclist Jorg Jaksche arrives at Operacion Puerto trial investigating allegations of a doping ring in cycling

Record ID: 863940

  • Title: SPAIN: CYCLE RACING - Former German cyclist Jorg Jaksche arrives at Operacion Puerto trial investigating allegations of a doping ring in cycling
  • Date: 11th February 2013
  • Summary: MADRID, SPAIN (FEBRUARY 11, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS EXTERIOR OF COURT GERMAN CYCLIST JOERG JAKSCHE (LIGHT BROWN JACKET) ARRIVING CAMERA OPERATOR JAKSCHE ENTERING COURT
  • Embargoed: 26th February 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Spain
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  • Country: Spain
  • Topics: Crime,Sports
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  • Story Text: Cyclists Ivan Basso, Jorg Jaksche and Marcos Serrano are due to testify on Monday (February 11) at a Spanish court in the Operation Puerto trial investigating allegations of a doping ring in cycling.
    Both Basso and Serrano will testify via videolink. Germany's Jaksche, a retired professional cyclist who admitted doping, arrived at the court and was scheduled to testify first.
    Eufemiano Fuentes is the Spanish doctor at the centre of the Operation Puerto trial into an alleged doping ring in cycling.
    A host of professional cyclists have been linked with Fuentes, who denies involvement in doping, including German Jan Ullrich and Italian Basso, who were both excluded from the 2006 Tour de France.
    Alberto Contador, the Spaniard stripped of one of his three Tour titles after testing positive for a banned substance, will appear on Feb. 22.
    The Puerto trial is being closely followed in Spain and beyond because anti-doping authorities hope it will lead to evidence of wrongdoing in sports other than cycling being made available.
    As Spain's current anti-doping legislation was not in force in 2006 when the police raids took place, Fuentes and his fellow accused, including his sister Yolanda, are being tried for violating public health regulations.
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