Austrians admit to ‘illegal methods’
February 23, 2006 by admin
Filed under Sports Rumors
Follow up #4 to a previous post ..
The president of the Austrian ski federation revealed that two athletes “may have used illegal methods” at the Torino Olympic Winter Games.
Federation president Peter Schroecksnadel told reporters Tuesday that Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottman, both of whom fled Italy when the team’s Olympic residences were raided by local police last Sunday evening, confessed to sports director Markus Gandler.
Schroecksnadel did not elaborate, noting only that the skiers have been kicked off the national team and that a commission is being set up to investigate.
“Team Austria is a small group and we live in close proximity to each other,” said biathlete Ludwig Gredler, who has competed in five Olympics. “But naturally, I cannot know what happens in other rooms.
“I know I am clean and have taken nothing. But I cannot speak for my teammates.”
Police reportedly seized 100 syringes, unlabelled medicine bottles, boxes of prescription drugs, and even a blood-transfusion machine in the anti-doping raid, the first on athletes in Olympic history.
Come on. Everybody travels with a blood transfusion kit.
Well, it’s mind boggling to me. All I can imagine, is something like this.. a group of guys at a party talking about the race and one says … “It’s too bad that you are not excited as I am .. if only you had my excited blood pumping through your veins” .. or, something like that ..