poulidor said:Maybe it coulb be explain why some positive testing were leaked to the press avoiding another withewashing!
Poulidor I like your style.... which part of France are you from ?
In other news WADA now have the 6000 page dossier.... we may now see more action:
The World Anti-Doping Agency is prepared to take disciplinary action in the Operation Puerto cycling scandal now that it has gained access to the files in the Spanish doping investigation.
WADA has been accepted as a party to the legal proceedings in Spain and "will now be given access to the files with the ability to intervene in the case," the agency said in a statement late Sunday.
"WADA will review the documents for elements which may be used for sports disciplinary purposes and will work with UCI (the international cycling union)," it said. WADA had previously been rejected as a party in the case.
The agency, which discussed Operation Puerto at its weekend meetings in Montreal, said it would also file an appeal against a Spanish judge's decision to drop the case.
The scandal broke in May 2006 when sports physician Eufemiano Fuentes, coach Manolo Saiz and six other people were arrested in Madrid on suspicion of providing doping services to cyclists.
The investigation implicated more than 50 cyclists and led to nine riders being excluded from last year's Tour de France - including pre-race favorites Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso.
Judge Antonio Serrano said in a ruling March 12 that he could not charge anyone in the case because, even though doping did take place, Spain's new anti-doping law was not in force at the time of the arrests. The law in place at the time penalized doping only if it harmed a person's health.
Spanish prosecutors appealed the decision two days later, calling for further investigation. Since then, 50 others riders have reportedly been implicated in documents totaling 6,000 pages.