Genevieve Jeanson, a former Canadian cyclist who confessed to using erythropoietin (EPO) during most of her career from 1998 until caught in 2005, resurfaced as a spectator at the World Championships in Richmond, Virginia. She sat down with Cyclingnews in an exclusive podcast discussion on September 27, which was released roughly ten weeks later on December 9.
Eight years ago, Jeanson made her doping confession during an interview with Canadian journalist Alain Gravel in his investigative report that aired on Enquête, a Radio-Canada television show. Because of that confession, she was issued a lifetime ban, which was then reduced to 10 years for cooperating with an investigation conducted by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) into her coach Andre Aubut and Montreal-based physician Maurice Duquette. CCES gave them both lifetime bans for administering a prohibited substance, erythropoietin (EPO), to Jeanson during her cycling career, when she was a minor.
In the podcast interview, Jeanson revealed shocking details about her relationship with Aubut, alleging that he was verbally and physically abusive toward her. These allegations also surfaced in Gravel’s L’affaire Jeanson: l’engrenage, a book published in 2008 that highlighted his interview process with Jeanson for the Enquête airing, where he detailed his own investigation into the nature of their relationship.
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The seriousness of Jeanson’s renewed allegations in the podcast prompted Cyclingnews to investigate further, and part of that investigation included four follow-up interviews with Jeanson, on September 28, October 1, October 31 and November 27, to establish timelines, and to develop additional understanding about her claims.
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