A few hours before the start of the Tour Colombia 2024, A scandal exploded in international cycling. Fredy Alexander GonzálezColombian doctor Nairo Quintana in it Tour de France 2020 He will be tried in France for suspicions of doping.
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“At the end of September 2020, when the Tour had just ended, the public health center of the Marseille prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation against several riders of the French Arkéa-Samsic team and members of the medical staff for suspected doping,” he explained. the newspaper L'Equipe,
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“The investigation ended and it was decided to prosecute Mr. Fredy Alexander Gonzales Torres, the Colombian doctor of the sports team,” explained the Marseille Prosecutor's Office.
To the Colombian doctor, who worked with Nairo Quintana And his brother Dayer Quintana, will be investigated by the French authorities for allegedly helping the two cyclists in doping practices in the Tour de France, while they were part of the team Arkéa-Samsic, explained the accusing body.
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“No doping substance has ever been found (…) . “I have nothing to hide and I never had anything to hide,” she said at the time. Nairo Quintana when consulted about the case a few years ago.
On September 2, the trial will take place against the Colombian doctor, who is accused of “possession of a substance or method prohibited for use by an athlete without medical justification.”
Dominique Laurens, former prosecutor of the case, commented at the time that while stage 17 of the Tour de France, in Meribel, an unjustified method was found that would be classified as doping. Situation that led to the Marseille Prosecutor's Office to begin the investigation against several members of the French squad.
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“There were equipment, tools, products and devices for performing intravenous perfusions and/or injections,” explained the public ministry.
The maximum penalty that the Colombian doctor could face is five years in prison and a financial fine of 75,000 euros.
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