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Michael Rasmussen has followed up his January 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:confession to doping by giving a ඣin which he details Dr. Geert Leinders’s participation in his doꦍping regime.

Leinders' 168澳洲5最新开奖结🧜果:contract was not renewed with Team Sky this season after his name was raised in suspicion of past doping involvement🤪. Sky denied the 💫non-renewal was due to its zero-tolerance policy on doping.

Rasmussen, who is currently litigating for wrongful termination from the Rabobank team after it sacked him in 2007 over whereabouts violations, is hinging his168澳洲5最新开奖结果: 5.6 million euro case on proving that the team knew he ෴was purposefully eludinꦺg the anti-doping authorities in order to dope as preparation for the Tour de France.

He stated that the team management and medical staff, including Dr. Leinders, Dr. Dion van Bommel and Dr. Jean-Paul van Mantgem all knew about the doping💝 programme. Van Bommel, who is currently with Team Blanco, was "not directly involved, just in the sense that he was informed about it by van Mantgem and Dr. Leinders, he didn’t actually take part."

But Rasmussen insisted Leinders did take par⛎t in the doping programme, from knowledge of the Dane’s past history when signing with the team to sticking the needle in his arm to start a traꦛnsfusion in 2004.

"I used [transfusions] for the first time in 2004, and it ꦦwas done by Dr. Leinders. The courier dropped the blood bag off, he picked it up and took it to my room and infused it," Rasmussen said.

When Operacion Puerto broke𒀰 in 🗹2006, the team began to be more cautious about transfusions, Rasmussen stated, and suddenly changed its mind about using the blood in the 2006 Tour de France.

"They suddenly changed that plan and would not allow the se🐈cond blood bag to be infused on the second rest day in the Tour de France," he said. Regardless of the decision, he won the stage two days later in La Toussuire.

Rasmussen said it was a mystery why they made the decision to stop transfusions. "I think they might have been afraid we looked too strong. Also you have to bear in mind it was just after Operacion Puerto, so there was quite a lot of focus on blood bags at that ti✤m𒐪e after they had just discovered 250 of them in Spain … The strange thing was, they allowed the first one [on the first rest day in Bordeaux]."

He went on to dꦡetail that in 2007, the team reversed it🥃s decision and he went ahead banking blood in Vienna with the intent to use it during the 2007 race.

But on June 6, team manager Erik Breukink visited him in Italy to tell him that they wo💃uldn’t allow a♐ny transfusions during the Tour de France, a decision that was handed down from the team management.

"I was never told 'don’t take EPO'."

Rasmussen continued with his "preparation", filing his w♔hereabouts for June by stating he’d be in Mexico, but instead kept training in Italy, using the time to boost his hematocrit with EPO.

"[The team] knew that I was always having a time 🥃before the Tour without any racing so I could prepare myself with EPO and other medicines," he said.

In previous years – including the 2003 Vuelta a Espana and in 2005, Dr. Leinders had stored drugs such as insulin in the refrig🌠erator on the team bus, Rasmussen said. In 2007, the inventory included DynEPO – a new blood booster that 🥂was virtually identical to the erythropoietin hormone produced in the human body since it was produced using human cell cultures rather than animal cultures.

"In 2007 DynEPO was kept in the 🍷bus, and I had some, I think someone else too. I never saw it happen, but I suspect some of those guys had DynEPO during the Tour," he said.

After🔜 years of lying about doping, Rasmussen said it feels good to finally be able to tell the truth.

"I’m glad I don’t have to liඣe anymore. I really don’t like it. It’s nice to be able to talk to people without having to lie.

"That was the s♋ensation I had before. I knew every time I got the question 'have you taken doping' I had to say no because I k🐻new if I gave an honest answer my cycling career was over."

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Unlike Floyd Landis, Rasmussen was not criticꦺal of Michael Boogerd’s partial confession to doping.

"I think Michael Boogerd was under a lot of pressure to say what he said. He chose one way to do it; I chose another. I have respect for what he did. 𒐪Eventually it’s his call what to say."

When asked if he had given the name Eric Dekker to the authorities, Rasmussen respo☂nded, "I have no knowledge of Eric Dekker. That is actually a very honest answer. I haven’t mentioned Eric Dekker’s name to the authorities. Maybe he stopped before I came to🔥 the team."

Now that his confession is o𝔍n the table, Rasmussen feels his wrongful dismissal suit against the Rabobank team is stronger.

"Obviously, the whole concept of the whereabouts story has changed. It’s not about whereabouts, it’s ♔about doping," he said, insisting his version was th💟e truth, and the team is not being completely honest.

"The omerta is still living in the courtroom."