This has been the week of the dope.
Firstly, last Sunday we revealed the utilisation of blood doping at Leicester City starting as long ago as April 2015 http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/webb-of-lies.html.
We later released evidences (internal only) for SIX Premier League teams that have been abusing Performance Enhancing Substances (PESs) in the last year http://synomic.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/snitching-cincuenta-y-seis.html
Then, Maria Sharapova was banned from tennis and, in coincidence, linked with signing for Leicester City for testing positive for meldonium (a drug she had been warned against taking on five previous occasions) at the Australian Open.
This was the same Australian Open where matchfixing reared its ugly head with the acknowledgement that 360 current tennis players are on a matchfixing blacklist http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/off-radar.html.
And now we have Rafa Nadal being exposed for his inappropriate relationship with disgraced doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. Former French Secretary of Sport Roselyne Bachelot stated that a lengthy lay-off for Nadal was "without any doubt because he tested positive [for performance enhancing drugs]."
Fuentes was sentenced to one year in prison over the Operacion Puerto cycling doping case.
He was also banned from drugging athletes for four years.
The case was interesting in that Fuentes offered to reveal over 200 sports people who had taken PESs but the Spanish court ordered the names not to be revealed and for the samples that proved illegalities to be destroyed.
It is known that Real Madrid and Barcelona both worked with Fuentes http://footballisfixed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/a-massive-insider-gamble-on-fc-bayern.html.
So Real Madrid's response to yesterday's revelations about Nadal are interesting.
The club statement read: "Real Madrid C.F. consider the close ties to an idol such as Nadal to be an honour, such is his status as a symbol of sporting excellence. Nadal is admired and adored by millions of fans the world over, and today our club is standing firmly by his side."
Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane was more forthcoming towards a truth: "I think that Rafa Nadal is... a spectacle."
The intriguing integration in these disparate stories is that the individual behind the utilisation of blood doping at Leicester learned his PESs corruptions in Spain!
