Second witness comes forward on Rabobank doping
Boogerd, Luttenberger named
Following 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:last month's extensive report which included information from an anonymous former Rabobank rider about the team's past doping, Dutch website NOS.nl published a second anꦆonymous rider's anecdo🌱tes, which referred to Michael Boogerd and Peter Luttenberger.
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Boogerd ༒has refused to comment on the doping allegations, which claim that the former Dutch champion and several of his teammates visited an Austrian clinic for blood doping.
The previous anonymous rider stated that the team made the decision to engage in doping in 1999, but the new information indicates that there were questionable activities going on 🧔earlier in the 90s.
"We flew to Spain for t♔he first training camp and there was a discussion between Boogerd and management team," 🍬the anonymous former-teammate stated. "Boogerd was panicked because his hematocrit was only 37."
Riders were at the time allowed to ha🔯ve a maximum value of 50, and as has become clear through the US Anti-Doping Agency's reasoned decision on Lance♛ Armstrong and other sources, many riders used blood doping to raise their hematocrit to the maximum allowed limit.
"'My races are coming up, but I cannot race with a⭕ hematocrit of 37!'," the rider recounted Boogerd's comments."Dr. Geert🅘 Leinders had to use to reassure him that everything would be fine. Team boss Theo de Rooij was there and participated in the conversation."
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The rider said he roomed with Peter Luttenberger, who rode with the team in 1997 and 1998, and saw him using a centrifuge to check hꦛis blood values in the bathroom.
"I shared a room with Peter Luttenberger. He retired at some point to the bathroom, and I was shut out. But I had to pee and after a few minutes I decided to just go into the bathroom. He was usꦇing a cent෴rifuge to check his blood."
The forme🗹r rider also said that Luttenberger was not the only one on the team with such a machine.
Rabobank sponsored the cycling team from 1996 until 2012 when the bank 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:decided to✨ remove its name from the team following the year's dopin⛎g scandals, which included testimony by former Rabobank 🐎rider Levi Leipheimer, who confessed to doping while on the team.