And then there is the high flyer of the season from the UAE Team, newly crowned Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race and Fleche Wallone winner 2023 Tadej Pogacar with his questionable environment. UAE team owner and CEO is Mauro Gianetti, a “…man of bad reputation,” as Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme once aptly put it. Gianetti collapsed during the Tour de Romandie in 1998 and fought for his life for days in a Swiss hospital. The attending physician Dr. Gremion, who saved his life, named the then experimental prototype doping substance PFC (perfluorocarbon, an artificial intensive care oxygen carrier) as the cause of the comatose collapse. Barely recovered, Gianetti brazenly denied the allegations; 10 years later, the Saunier Duval team he managed had to leave the Tour de France after various doping scandals [16]. In May 2019, Croatian Kristijan Durasek from Team UAE was suspended by the UCI as part of the investigation into “Operation Aderlass” against sports doctor Mark Schmidt [17]. Gianetti always played the clueless one and is fatally reminiscent of “good” old cycling cover-up traditions, such as Hennes Junkermann’s legendary Tour de France quote about his sudden, inexplicable slump and the causal causes of doping in the 1960s, “I shouldn’t have eaten the fish.” [18]. Furthermore, Pogacar’s discoverer, trainer and UAE Directeur Sportif Andrej Hauptmann, was excluded from the Tour de France in 2000 because of too high a hematocrit value and suspicion of blood doping [19]. With Joxean Matxin Fernandez and team doctor Inigo San Millán, the UAE team is adequately supplemented with further “tried and tested” personnel from dark times [20]. The cycling godfather, the connotation can definitely be understood in the spirit of notorious Italian organizational leaders, Patrick Lefevere, a personal relic from the doping heyday of cycling around the Team Telekom and Festina scandal epoch, is still gymnastics as the boss of one of the most successful teams in the professional circuit (Soudal Quick Step ) around [21]. What an illustrious company that wants to sell us the “new” cycling as clean. Yes, of course, the boys are clean because they shower properly after every training and competition, no one doubts that.
Instead of bludgeoning innocent, responsible citizens at peaceful demonstrations for no reason over the last three years, the state executive bodies should remember their core task of combating organized crime. All past doping scandals were uncovered largely through police raids and investigative investigations. It’s time for there to finally be appropriate doping-positive incidences again that correspond to the reality in professional high-performance sport and not the ridiculous reports about athletes with possibly harmless colds who were “convicted” by a nonsensical PCR test [22].
[3] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_133644.htm „Paris-Roubaix: Der Sturz aus Sicht der Zuschauer. Degenkolb stellt klar: ´Es war ein Rennunfall´“
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFw7CTzNznI „Paris-Roubaix 2023 – John Degenkolb nach dem Rennen“
[5] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_133284.htm „Faulkner “extrem enttäuscht“ nach Strade-Disqualifikation“ bzw. https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_133202.htm „Wegen Glukose-Biosensor am Oberarm Faulkner droht Aberkennung von Rang 3 bei Strade Bianche“.
[6] https://www.velomotion.de/magazin/2016/02/tour-de-france-china-wanda-group-wang-jianlin-velon/, https://www.velomotion.de/magazin/2016/02/velon-unterzeichnet-10-jaehrige-medienkooperation/, s.a. die Einblendung der Ermüdungsbalken während der 20. Etappe des Giro d`Italia 2021.
[7] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_133615.htm „Jumbo und DSM mit Systemen für verstellbaren Reifendruck“
[9] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris%E2%80%93Roubaix_2023
[10] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_106693.htm „UCI will Motor-Dopingvorwürfe gegen Cancellara prüfen“, https://www.cyclingtips.com/2018/04/for-the-first-time-boonen-addresses-2010-cancellara-motor-speculation/, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor-Doping, https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_98115.htm „Motordoping bei Strade Bianche und Coppi e Bartali?“, https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/electromagnetic-wheels-are-the-new-frontier-of-mechanical-doping-claims-gazzetta-dello-sport/, https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_125979.htm Manipulationen bei der Tour? “Eigenartiges Geräusch aus dem Hinterrad“, https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/mechanisches-doping-radsport-tour-de-france-fraunhofer-100.html KI Analyse gegen Motordoping von UCI abgelehnt
[11] Meutgens Ralf, Doping im Radsport, S. 260/261, Delius Klasing Verlag 2007.
[12] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Ferrari
[13] https://www.leparisien.fr/sports/cyclisme-le-danois-fuglsang-avec-le-sulfureux-docteur-ferrari-02-02-2020-8250966.php, https://www.velonews.com/news/reports-suggest-ferrari-active-again-in-peloton/,
[14] https://www.53×12.com/about
[15] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAM_(bicycling)
[16] https://www.20min.ch/story/der-manager-ist-ein-mann-von-schlechtem-ruf-833279490599
[17] https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_118462.htm „Die Chronik der Operation Aderlass“
[19] https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article521157/Eine-Demonstration-dass-es-noch-immer-Idioten-gibt.html
[21] https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7840/1431988 „ZDF-Magazin “Frontal 21”: Radprofi Patrik Sinkewitz belastet Quick Step-Chef Patrick Lefévère schwer. Ermittlungspanne der Welt-Anti-Doping Agentur (WADA)“, https://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/doping-im-radsport-die-gemeinsamkeiten-der-geaechteten-1.714092 , https://www.nwzonline.de/radsport/spitzmarkebruessel-radsport-rad-profi-museeuw-gibt-doping-zu_a_5,1,1238948482.html# „…sieben oder acht Mal Amphetamine genommen…“
[22] https://2020news.de/neue-studie-belegt-der-pcr-test-kann-keine-infektion-nachweisen/
[23] Ergänzende Anmerkung. Bei der Tour de France 2023 bestätigen van der Poel und Philipsen das im Artikel analysierte Verhalten durch weitere unsportliche Entgleisungen: https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_134798.htm „Bad Boys oder Traumduo der Tour? Philipsen an Jakobsens Sturz beteiligt, van der Poel relegiert“, https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_134800.htm „Behinderung der Konkurrenz vor und im Sprint Bauhaus und van der Poel von der Jury bestraft“, https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_135037.htm “Kleinem Arschloch“ Eenkhoorn war Philipsens Schikane egal. Im WM Rennen 2024 legt van der Poel nochmal unsportlich nach: https://www.radsport-news.com/sport/sportnews_139706.htm Offener Brief: Letten beklagen sich über van der Poels Aktion.
The author studied chemistry and sports science, worked, among other things, in the Institute for Biochemistry and Doping Analysis at the German Sport University in Cologne, was a founding member of the NADA DKS Commission (National Anti Doping Agency, Doping Control System), co-author of the book “Doping in Cycling”, was Speaker in further training for sports doctors and as a course leader in trainer training. He has supported professional cycling in various functions for decades and continues to practice cycling intensively to this day.
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