Spanish Doping Case To Avoid Naming Names
A Spanish judge on Wednesday refused to demand that the suspected mastermind of one of the sporting world’s biggest blood doping rackets provide the names of the athletes implicated in the scandal. The ruling in the so-called “Operation Puerto” case could avert a huge fall-out from the high-profile trial, with suspects across the drug-tarnished world of cycling and perhaps in other sports potentially at risk. The court in Madrid was told that Italy’s Olympic Committee had asked judge Julia Patricia Santamaria to order chief suspect doctor Eufemaniano Fuentes to identify the athletes whose blood had been stored in packs seized by police....