Keeping it in the family

[johnr]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/feb/07/italian-family-drugs-ban

In a week of odd doping stories, this one takes the prize methinks

 

[raindog]

Nothing thicker than blood is there? Ricco's - see the other thread - sister has been involved in drugs, and wasn't there something about the Schleck's dad being caught with stuff in his car boot? What happened about that anyway. It just seemed to fizzle out, was nothing ever proved?

 

[rich p]

Nothing thicker than blood is there? Ricco's - see the other thread - sister has been involved in drugs, and wasn't there something about the Schleck's dad being caught with stuff in his car boot? What happened about that anyway. It just seemed to fizzle out, was nothing ever proved?

Nothing was found in the boot of the car but there's was a whiff of something fishy

Doping allegations
On July 25, 2008, one day prior to a decisive penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2008, the German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung first revealed an alleged contact between Schleck and the infamous Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes in December 2005, although authorities confirmed that none of the available evidence would support such claims.[sup][7][/sup] The allegations in connection with Schleck followed a series of strong performances of the rider who wore the yellow jersey over several days and whose father's car had been the subject of a detailed search by French customs authorities during the Tour.

Prior to the 2008 UCI Road World Championships in Varese, Italy, on September 26, 2008, the Süddeutsche Zeitung published a further article on the connections between Schleck and Fuentes after claiming to have seen evidence on a bank transfer of €7000 from Schleck to a Swiss bank account linked to Fuentes. The existence of the evidence was revealed by German police and subsequently confirmed by Luxembourg prosecutors.[sup][8][/sup]

Following Schleck's public admittance of such payment on October 3, 2008, Bjarne Riis and Team CSC Saxo Bank decided to temporarily suspend Schleck from any further races until the outcome of the doping allegations towards Schleck would be fully clarified.[sup][9][/sup] Schleck was cleared from all allegations by the doping authorities of Luxembourg at the beginning of December.

 

[montage]

Not heard of the Schleck incident before!
Doesn't fill me with confidence

 

[woohoo]

IIRC the stopping of Schleck Snr's car was anything but random. They were looking... but didn't find... whatever it was.