For the first time in Spain, the main advisors in the anti-doping fight will not be repentant athletes, as was claimed at some time, or those who, like Jesús Manzano, described a rotten system with its epicenter in the doctor Eufemiano Fuentes and which gave rise to Operation Puerto and the dance of blood bags with dog nicknames. The advisors of the new Spanish anti-doping policy, which emerged after the dismissal of José Luis Terreros, will be former Olympic and world champions, famous athletes who know the ins and outs of their sport, or who have experienced the misfortune of receiving their medals deferred after for the courts or laboratories to issue a ruling. Álvaro Martín, Olympic and world walking champion, Lydia Valentín, triple Olympic medalist in three Games, Jesús García Bragado, the Spanish athlete with the most participation in the Games (8), and the Paralympic triathlon champion Susana Rodríguez form the new advisory skeleton of anti-doping in Spain. The new traces of Spanish anti-doping were established with the dismissal of Terreros and the ephemeral direction of Silvia Calzón, who left for Pedro Sánchez’s cabinet at eight months and who has been replaced by one of his closest collaborators, Carlos Peralta. One of the core points of the strategy promoted by Secretary of State José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes consists of giving a voice to athletes in a matter as sensitive as doping. Standard Related News Yes doping Anti-doping turns towards softness: the objective responsibility José Carlos Carabias report Yes Eight bodybuilders dead in five months Body worship and unchecked doping, the cocktail of death José Carlos CarabiasThe governing council of the anti-doping agency (Celad, Spanish Commission for the fight against doping in sport), in which the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) and representatives of the autonomous communities, among others, also intervene, appointed García Bragado and Lydia Valentín at the proposal of Alejandro Blanco, president of the COE. Uribes appointed Álvaro Martín and Susana Rodríguez. The functions of the advisory champions are to be defined in an upcoming meeting that they will hold with the new director of Spanish anti-doping, Carlos Peralta, although sources familiar with the agreement indicate that it is about establishing an exercise in transparency. «What is intended is that we help each other. That the athletes help the agency and that we can help the active athletes.” The mantra that progresses in the message of the new Celad is transparency. A contrast that is sought with respect to the previous management of Terreros, from whom the CSD wants to be separated as if it were the plague despite the fact that the Prosecutor’s Office filed in July the complaint filed by the body chaired by Uribes without appreciating crimes in the reported events. by a Celad official. “Good times are coming for Spanish anti-doping,” said Uribes at a Europa Press breakfast. Álvaro Martín’s desireThe walker Álvaro Martín, Olympic and world champion in less than a year, top athlete in Spain, retired on September 7 almost by surprise and with only 30 years in a modality that allows decades of performance. Graduated in Law and Politics, the athlete from Extremadura assured that he wanted to give direction to his life after having led a revolt among his colleagues due to the credibility crisis of Spanish athletics, the protagonist of most of the doping episodes that caused the fall. of Terreros. Álvaro Martín held several meetings with Rodríguez Uribes and Silvia Calzón in which he demanded rigor in the treatment of the cases. Uribes noticed an energetic commitment in the Extremaduran and has promoted it to this Sanhedrin, called the Coordination Commission. Martín is the member of this quartet of champions who presents himself with the most warrior spirit, in action/reaction mode, willing to unmask doped users. his knowledge of the terrain. Jesús García Bragado, friend of the marcher, member of the commission and former councilor of the San Adriá de Besós City Council, knows that things in the palace are going slowly. “Public affairs are always slow,” he tells ABC. Doping is a thorny field, in which you always get scratched, but we are going to work to help clean athletes and Spanish sport. “Bragado is 55 years old and has a world of experiences in a very loaded sport, such as athletics. «We can help make the anti-doping fight more effective. Don’t blindfold yourself, but know where to go. Making it more difficult for cheaters is already achieving enough. I have retired as an athlete, but I am still linked to athletics (as a coach) and we believe we know the path that cheaters take. “There are many aspects to anti-doping,” Bragado continues. On the one hand, there are urine and blood controls, the biological passport and so on. But on the other hand, there are undetectable substances, and that’s where the police have to come in. We need an investigation because in that case the controls are worthless.” Bragado remembers an adverse one, that of the Spanish Mohamed Katir, sanctioned for two years for skipping the location. «Kids always comment on things… If you have nothing to hide, you can explain it to the authorities. But if you have something to hide, then you play cat and mouse.” Lydia Valentín collected two delayed Olympic medals almost a decade later: silver in Beijing 2008 and gold in London 2012. “I have been fighting for 20 years in a sport stained by doping – he tells ABC –. I am one of the athletes in history most affected by doping. And I am clear that sport is clean or it is not sport. “I am grateful for the opportunity given to me.”
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