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Manzano details Kelme's doping test methods
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Retired rider Jesus Manzano on Wednesday told a court he was given the blood-booster EPO and other drugs by a doctor accused of masterminding a vast blood-doping network and currently on trial in Madrid.
“Yes, I was treated by doctor Eufemiano Fuentes,” the 34-year-old told the hearing in Madrid. “I was treated with EPO in 2000, 2001, and 2003 by Eufemiano.”..
“I had taken oxyglobin intravenously, a haemoglobin for dogs [which increases oxygen levels in the blood], and Belda and Labarta knew, of course,” Manzano said during his testimony. “I attacked Richard Virenque on a stage and I began to feel progressively worse until I fainted. In the team they asked me to not say what I had taken nor to do a test because it was in France and we would all go to jail.”...
“In 2001, Belda came to my room saying he would give me ‘a little something to soup up my engine.’ It was EPO. Fuentes and Labarta were there. If you didn’t take it they would expel you from the team,” he said. “I took the medication because it was compulsory in the team. I never did it voluntarily. If I report them here [in Spain], I am sacked. If I did it in France, then all of Kelme would go to jail.”...
“They put a white powder on the penis to deteriorate the urine sample so that we didn’t test positive for EPO,” he said. “For the UCI controls we put in saline solution or human albumin (a protein in blood plasma) and that lowered the hematocrit levels.
“We would put in half a liter and then Belda or someone would give us a square pill to sweat and pee a lot to get rid of this half a liter.”
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Retired rider Jesus Manzano on Wednesday told a court he was given the blood-booster EPO and other drugs by a doctor accused of masterminding a vast blood-doping network and currently on trial in Madrid.
“Yes, I was treated by doctor Eufemiano Fuentes,” the 34-year-old told the hearing in Madrid. “I was treated with EPO in 2000, 2001, and 2003 by Eufemiano.”..
“I had taken oxyglobin intravenously, a haemoglobin for dogs [which increases oxygen levels in the blood], and Belda and Labarta knew, of course,” Manzano said during his testimony. “I attacked Richard Virenque on a stage and I began to feel progressively worse until I fainted. In the team they asked me to not say what I had taken nor to do a test because it was in France and we would all go to jail.”...
“In 2001, Belda came to my room saying he would give me ‘a little something to soup up my engine.’ It was EPO. Fuentes and Labarta were there. If you didn’t take it they would expel you from the team,” he said. “I took the medication because it was compulsory in the team. I never did it voluntarily. If I report them here [in Spain], I am sacked. If I did it in France, then all of Kelme would go to jail.”...
“They put a white powder on the penis to deteriorate the urine sample so that we didn’t test positive for EPO,” he said. “For the UCI controls we put in saline solution or human albumin (a protein in blood plasma) and that lowered the hematocrit levels.
“We would put in half a liter and then Belda or someone would give us a square pill to sweat and pee a lot to get rid of this half a liter.”
Read more: Manzano details Kelme’s doping test methods
