(Dagbladet): Earlier Saturday morning, it was announced on Twitter that a large doping revelation in directing the British newspaper The Sunday Times was on the stairs, and Saturday night let the newspaper print a picture of the front of the Sunday newspaper.
Where one can read that the doctor Mark Bonar should have greeted reporters who worked for the newspaper (requires login), and in these meetings revealed that he has a number of major UK and international sports profiles on the client list.
Among these there is a cricketer, a British Tour de France cyclist, several tennis players and footballers linked to Premier League clubs Arsenal, Chelsea and Leicester.
These should have got both steroids, growth hormones and EPO.
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the newspaper also makes it clear that they have no evidence that the doctor has treated athletes, beyond what he has explained to reporters . There is also no evidence that the clubs know why Bonar had contact with clubs or helped them to obtain doping.
Britain’s culture minister, John Whittingdale, has now demanded a hearing, after it became known that the British antidoping agency should have known of these allegations for two years without taking action.
– Sports Fans are entitled to know with certainty that what they see is real and fair – that are all competing on equal basis. I have asked for an immediate and independent investigation to find out when these allegations first became known, and what was done, he said, according to Sky Sports.
He says that he is shocked revelations to the British newspaper, but thank them for their contributions. Now he wants to take up arms against those who cheat and get to the bottom of the anti-doping agency has done its job.
– There is no room to be indifferent in the fight against doping, and authorities are already looking at the laws in this area are strict enough. It becomes apparent that there is need for more stringent penalties, we will not hesitate to take such actions, he said.
Reactions
The duo behind the revelations is none other than the German journalist Hajo Seppelt and British Jonathan Calvert. The same two who both rocked athletics and make the Russian athletes by all appearances to judge not allowed to participate in this summer’s Olympics in Rio.
Both have an extremely high credibility after dopingavsløringene in athletics, and both can show a bunch of prices for the job they did. Both now, simultaneously, forecasts a major doping scandal in the Premier League, arouses immediate attention. Reactions have not been long in coming.
One of them is the former Liverpool player Stan Collymore. He describes the disclosure as “massive”.
– All Premier League players should voluntarily deliver the blood, hair and urine samples in the morning, he writes on Twitter.
same time there are several that put a question mark at the doctor’s credibility, and are skeptical about the actual evidence.
Reply from the agency
In the wake of the disclosure, also the British anti-doping agency UKAD made a statement. They write that they are shocked by the news and accusations that The Times comes with.
– Once again the media has shown how valuable they are in their efforts to protect the clean sport and to combat doping, they write.
Further confirming that they got wind of the relevant doctor in 2014. they conducted as an investigation, but found that he was not subject to any form of organized sports.
they point so that they do not have authority to investigate further if this is the case.
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