Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes has recognised that it is possible that some top names in sport could be identified as the owners of the blood transfusion bags from Operación Puerto should they be publicly confirmed.
In one of his first interviews with the media since he was cleared on Tuesday of all charges in the Puerto anti-doping probe, Fuentes was asked by Spanish radio station COPE if ‘major names’ could appear once the list of the 211 blood bags seized in Puerto was cross-checked with their potential owners via their DNA.
“It could be, it could be,” Fuentes said, before adding, “but I’m not going to give you clues or names.
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“If they are going to be found out, it’s a question of waiting to find out.”
Fuentes emphasied that “If there is no crime, and there is none for either myself or the sports people involved” - at least, not according to Spanish public health laws in 2006, which were those applied to Puerto - “then I have to say I am professionally bound [not to comment further].”
Technically the process of naming riders and athletes linked via DNA to at least some of the 211 blood bags seized in Puerto and which are currently sitting in a freezer in an anti-doping lab in Barcelona - as they have been for the last ten years - is possible. But legally, whether the process of ‘naming and shaming’ these sports personalities and whether this constitutes slander given no suspension is now possible after the statute of limitations has passed, has already been raised in Spain - and Fuentes speculated on it again.
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