Küng's team-mate admits to blood doping

Georg Preidler is already the fourth top Austrian athlete, who has admitted in connection with the investigation of the network of the Erfurt sports doctor, Mark S., involvement. "I've got a Doping confession. I've got blood, but it never returned. But the idea and the fraudulent intent is already a crime," said Austria's current time trial champion in Interviews with the "Kronen Zeitung" and the "Kleine Zeitung".

For him had been the last few days have been a nightmare, said Preidler, who is currently with the French World Tour team Groupama-FDJ under contract and team-mate of the four Swiss Stefan Küng, Kilian Frankiny, Steve Morabito and Sébastien is Reichenbach. "I have not slept, not eaten. I don't know if I would have been transferred. I don't know how and if this anti-Doping doctor has everything encrypted. But I could not live with this secret," said Preidler.

In the case of a Doping RAID, seven Suspects on the outskirts of the North-were held on Wednesday-world Championships in Seefeld. Including five athletes, including the Austrian cross-country skier Dominik Baldauf and Max Hauke. On Wednesday, a sports medicine Mark S. and a suspected accomplice were parallel in Erfurt.

"This makes a interesting"

"These people come to a search, you. All of my successes, such as the Giro, were clean. I was without a Doping well, for one, have never cheated a little. It makes a interesting," said Preidler, in the case of the tour of Italy three times in the Top 30 hazards. In front of him, a Tyrolean cyclist had filed after a temporary arrest, a confession. Two Estonian and a Kazakhstani cross-country skiers are into the Doping affair confessed.

"socially, I'm down. The coming weeks will be hard for me. I know but not the names of other athletes. But I can imagine that there will be an international earthquake" predicted Preidler. (ddu/sda)

Created: 04.03.2019, 09:39 PM