Former Armstrong doctor provided drugs to Spanish track team: report

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Last Updated : Apr 17 2018 | 9:35 PM IST

Spain's Olympic track cycling team from Atlanta 1996 was supplied banned substances by Lance Armstrong's disgraced former doctor Michele Ferrari, El Pais newspaper reported today.

According to a 2016 testimony, seen by El Pais, from Spanish doctor Luis Garcia del Moral, the Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) took part in a doping programme between 1993 and 1998.

Del Moral, who was the track cycling team's medical manager at the time, told the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in 2016 that Ferrari had provided banned doping products.

Asked if Ferrari supplied Spanish track cyclists with corticosteroids during this period, Del Moral replied: "That was not the main thing. The main thing was EPO and growth hormones."

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First Published: Apr 17 2018 | 9:35 PM IST

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