Italian police have staged drugs raids on the Austrian biathlon and cross-country teams’ Winter Olympics accommodation in Pragelato near Turin.
Alfred Eder, a trainer for the Austrian biathlon team, said police searched and interviewed athletes for four hours. “We are very angry,” Eder said. “It is not very gentlemanly.”
Wada chief Dick Pound said officials seeking to test biathletes in Austria instead found blood-doping equipment connected to banned coach Walter Mayer.
Mayer was barred from the 2006 and 2010 Winter Games by the IOC after similar equipment was found at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Gotcha!
If it wasn’t for the luge, I probably wouldn’t care about the winter games. Sooting down that tube at seventy miles per hour on a tiny little sled…..damn, that looks like fun. My daughter likes the snowboard-cross, but I haven’t seen it yet.
From the article
While Mayer was not violating the ban imposed on him, Ljungqvist said by visiting the athletes he had violated the Olympic spirit.
I guess the Olympic spirit includes the midnight raid and holding the athletes for four hours the night before the competition. I think the whole Olympic contingent should be up in arms over this. Otherwise, they could be next.
Man, and they ended up finishing last the next day. I wonder what the IOC will have to say if there is nothing found. Maybe they will give the a duplicate gold in the spirit of the games, …kidding.
why can’t they have a second olympics where steroids and doping are required, thats the one i’d watch.