Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

El Pais is churning out stories from Operation Puerto on a daily basis and Tuttobici web has some translations to Italian. Velochimp kindly translates it for you while providing some insight.

Seems like information is starting to come out and names are being tagged with the documents. In all due respect, it is not fair to the cyclist in question to have their names drawn out in public especially if they have not been officially caught doping. There are rumors that Jan Ullrich’s name can be extrapolated from some of the documents. But without a positive test and simple speculation, it is not wise to throw accusations at Der Kaiser until all of the facts are conclusive.

One rider that did test positive and shows up in the documents related to Fuestes and Merino Batres is Tyler Hamilton. Among the documents are a 2003 season schedule for Tyler Hamilton and a fax number for Haven Parchinski who is Tyler’s wife which included a bill for services rendered. The bill included 35,000 Euro for medical services and 8,500 Euros for products. The 2003 season calendar shows that Tyler was to start administering two units of EPO daily starting on December 21st until December 24th. Then he would take doses every other day until January 9th. On January 14th before the winter training camp Hamilton started with the first extraction of blood and on the 24th he would begin the anabolic steroid treatments. In March Hamilton would take HMG as he would reduce the use of anabolic steroids. HMG is a hormone that promotes the creation of insulin.

The schedule shows that Tyler won Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Tour de Romandie six days after taking a reinfusion of blood in April. In the month of May, Hamilton resumed the use of anabolic steroids and EPO. In June Hamilton drew blood, took growth hormone and IGF-1 and reinfused blood a few days before the start of the Tour. So the broken clavical that Tyler suffered during the 2003 Tour probably did not mean much since he was already juiced up beyond belief.

Be aware that these are documents seized by Spanish authorities and leaked to the press. The validitiy may be in question until there are either charges files or something official is done. But, with all of this current evidence and the positive test results it is very difficult to still Believe Tyler.

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