The Lefevere/Quickstep doping scandal continues to blow up. Reports in the newspaper LHN.BE (Het Laatste Nieuws,Belgium) contend team Quickstep bribed officials to pass doping tests (translation):
The last news unpacks today with new charges to the address of Quick.Step-manager Patrick Lefevere. An anonymous renner of the current Quick. Step-ploeg says that the renners use both doping and drugs...
Acte of it are the deposition today in the last news of a renner from the Quick. Step-ploeg. Renners take drugs on parties, they do not have fear being caught, because at controls people are bribed. Lefevere and Van Mol are informed of these practices and even deserve money, sound it. Three types according to the renner are there three types renners at Quick. scooter. You have the renners who but small 100 km must work, who take nothing. Then there are the coureurs who what must go along longer, which gets regularly something extra. Finally have you the top press and it are those renners who get the large resources. year amount According to anonymous getuige the renners give a year amount to doctor Van Mol and those recommends you then concerning certain products. "if someone was caught, then they knew of nothing."
Cycling News says Quicksteps manager resigned yesterday.
Quick Step-Innergetic's public relations officer Johan Museeuw has confessed to not being "100 per cent honest" during the final year of his cycling career, in what is generally being interpreted as an admission to doping.
Velo News carries the story too. Museeuw is facing charges. Accusations include EPO, HGH, anabolic steroids, and amphetamine to riders.
Facing trial on doping charges, former world champion Johan Museeuw on Tuesday admitted to taking drugs in the final months of his career...
The Belgian star stands accused of possessing the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) and two other illegal performance enhancers. He was suspected of being part of a ring of drug traffickers including a veterinary surgeon and three-time world cyclo-cross champion Mario De Clercq and eight other riders and go-betweens.
They are suspected of supplying human growth hormones, stimulants, steroids and testosterone to riders. All will now face trial after Belgian authorities decided there was enough evidence to prosecute the men.
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