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01-09-07, 05:05 PM
From cyclingnews.com:
Spanish paper suggests link between Valverde and Fuentes
By Shane Stokes
The fallout from Operación Puerto continues to rumble on, with the Spanish press today stating that ProTour 2006 winner Alejandro Valverde is one of several high profile riders circumstantially linked to the controversial Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes.
According to the paper ABC, when Fuentes was arrested in Madrid last May 23rd he had in his possession a black wallet which contained one clearly identifiable name; that of Valverde. When police searched it they found nine credit cards, a card from 2004 bearing the names and numbers of the Liberty Seguros team, business cards belonging to Mario Zorzoli (medical chief of the UCI) and Emilio Lamparero, who the paper reported has worked as a psychologist with football club Real Madrid. Most interestingly, there was also a card from the hotel Silken with the names "Ale," "Manc," "Vino," "Popo" and "Valverde" written on it.
Read the rest here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jan07/jan09news2
It's not difficult to tell who those nicknames represent. Petacchi, Mancebo, Vinokourov, and Popovych so far as I can tell. Of course, that's simply speculation.
Spanish paper suggests link between Valverde and Fuentes
By Shane Stokes
The fallout from Operación Puerto continues to rumble on, with the Spanish press today stating that ProTour 2006 winner Alejandro Valverde is one of several high profile riders circumstantially linked to the controversial Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes.
According to the paper ABC, when Fuentes was arrested in Madrid last May 23rd he had in his possession a black wallet which contained one clearly identifiable name; that of Valverde. When police searched it they found nine credit cards, a card from 2004 bearing the names and numbers of the Liberty Seguros team, business cards belonging to Mario Zorzoli (medical chief of the UCI) and Emilio Lamparero, who the paper reported has worked as a psychologist with football club Real Madrid. Most interestingly, there was also a card from the hotel Silken with the names "Ale," "Manc," "Vino," "Popo" and "Valverde" written on it.
Read the rest here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jan07/jan09news2
It's not difficult to tell who those nicknames represent. Petacchi, Mancebo, Vinokourov, and Popovych so far as I can tell. Of course, that's simply speculation.