The World Anti-Doping Agency has identified the athletes who more than ten years ago participated in a blood doping and performance-enhancing drug ring run by Eufemiano Fuentes, but are now looking to its legal team to determine if the Operacion Puerto information can be made public without WADA being sued, according to former WADA director general David Howman.
Howman spoke with the Spanish news outlet AS while attending the Congreso Deporte, Dopaje y Sociedad (Congress on Sport, Doping and Society) symposium in Madrid, not far from where the Guardia Civil uncovered the Fuentes clinic in 2006.
WADA received the evidence from the decade-old Operacion Puerto case after winning an appeal last June in the Madrid Court of Appeals to prevent the 211 blood bags from being destroyed. The evidence was tested in the WADA-accredited laboratory on Lausanne, Switzerland, but the results have not yet been released because of the legal concerns.
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The statute of limitations for sporting sanctions under the WADA code expired in 2014.
"It is not an easy process. Operation Puerto has caused WADA and clean athletes a lot of frustration," Howman said according to AS.com. "Unfortunately, we continue without a clear outcome for 100% of its scope, and we also continue to debate with the lawyers about the list of those involved.
"So many people all over the world want to know the name of those involved. However, there are legal problems to deal with. Now it is too late, since the statute of limitations has expired, there is no possibility of punishment and it requires study and caution."
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