Doctor’s doping confession rocks the Olympics days out from Paris
A doctor has dramatically confessed to doping a superstar athlete just days out from the start of the Olympic Games in Paris.
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Infamous 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.
The 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.
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.
- This article first appeared in The Sun and was republished with permission
Originally published as Doctor’s doping confession rocks the Olympics days out from Paris
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