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File picture of Eufemiano Fuentes, the Spanish doctor at the heart of one of cycling's biggest doping scandals. AP/Press Association Images

Spanish court orders Operation Puerto blood bags are released

This could have huge implications.

A SPANISH COURT today ruled that blood bags that are key evidence in one of Spain’s worst doping scandals should be handed over to authorities for investigation.

The Madrid Provincial Court said bags containing blood samples and plasma should be handed over to the Spanish Cycling Federation, the World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Cycling Union and Italy’s Olympic Committee.

The announcement came 10 years after Operation Puerto revealed a doping network involving some of the world’s top cyclists when police seized coded blood bags from the Madrid clinic of sports doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.

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