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DOCTOR Eufemiano Fuentes has admitted to doping Spanish athlete Cayetano Cornet “in every possible way”.
Cornet, 60, is a legend in Spain for competing in the 400-metre hurdles between 1986 and 1993.
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YouTubeThe athlete won gold medals at the Ibero-American Championships in 1986 and the European Indoor Championships in 1989.
He also competed at the Olympic Games in 1988 and 1992.
However, he has now been involved in a doping scandal after Dr Fuentes admitted to doping him.
Fuentes, 69, devasted the cycling world with transfusions that were discovered in Operation Puerto.
He never revealed his most famous clients, such as footballers and tennis stars.
He has now told German TV station ARD that he doped Cornet with hormones, growth hormones, anabolic steroids and testosterone at the request of the Spanish sport’s government.
It is also suggested that he had the freedom to give any treatment “as long as nothing came out of the tests and there were no health risks”.
Cornet retired from competing after the World Championships in 1993.
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Studio guests:
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He went on to have a career in political-sports and is the head of the Iberian delegation for the Paris 2024 Olympic games.
President of the Spanish Olympic committee Alejandro Blanco has insisted that Cornet will not be suspended from heading up the mission.
Former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich was barred from riding in cycling‘s premier event in 2006 amid speculation he had doped.
In 2012, he was found guilty of doping and banned for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland.
He had become a controversial figure in the sport due to his connections to Fuentes.
Paris Olympics with 300k condoms
Nearly 15,000 residents – around 10,500 of which are athletes – will be cramming into the Olympic village between July 26 and August 11.
To ensure the athletes feel at home, a number of provisions have been made by organisers.
One of these is the stocking of some 300,000 condoms, in theory enough for around two every day during the run of the Games.
A number of Olympic athletes have opened the door on their steamy lives behind-the-scenes when in camp, including huge sex orgies and parties.
London 2012 had claimed the title of “the raunchiest Games ever”, but the 150,000 condoms ordered paled in comparison to the 450,000 ordered for the Rio Games four years later.
Condoms have been laid on by organisers at every game since Seoul 1988, when it they were used to spread awareness of HIV and AIDS.
Even with an intimacy ban at Tokyo 2020 due to Covid-19, some 150,000 johnnies were handed out.
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