Friday, August 01, 2008

Rodriguez clears Aketza; Iban next?

Aketza Peña being cleared of doping wasn't just good news for the rider himself. It was also good for Iban. Why? Because Iban and Aketza share the same lawyer; José Rodriguez, the former president of the Association of Professional Cyclists. Rodriguez was successful in proving that the Anti-Doping Laboratory in Athens committed mistakes in their testing of the original sample. CAS duly cleared the rider of doping, something which no doubt bodes well for Iban. If Rodriguez managed to solve Aketza's case, then Iban's shouldn't be a problem at all. There are far more irregularities committed by the UCI in Iban's case than what was the case with Aketza. This doesn't change anything of course, as Rodriguez finished his job in CAS several months ago. Right now CAS are just thinking it over, though one could be excused for wondering how slowly some people seem to think. If Iban's cleared though, I'll no doubt be José Rodriguez's biggest fan.

4 comments:

DBrower said...

Do you have any leads on a copy of the decision?

Please email if you do to tbv at trustbut.com

thanks,

TBV

Anonymous said...

I hate the end justifies the means thinking. Even if someone is guilty there should be proper channels to go through. If these channels are not followed the person should be cleared. I don't know this whole thing really bothers me for some reason.
Mike

Anonymous said...

The most important thing is that Iban hopefully has learned from his mistakes. And no, I know we don't know anything exactly, but it takes a lot to get caught of doping with EPO these days. The Nibelungo-name in Fuentes' papers should have some link to Iban to - rumours say. Still, I hope he has learned and will return, let's say, cleaner...

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