Cycling: Doping: Medical doctor accuses van Moorsel

The Netherlands is shocked by a doping scandal.In an interview with the daily newspaper De Volkskrant, sports physician Peter Janssen stated that he had provided athletes with doping substances for years.The Dutch cycling idol Leontien van Moorsel, four-time Olympic gold medallist and multiple world champion, is said to have been one of his customers.

Van Moorsel received EPO from him in the months before the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, where she won three gold medals, said Janssen,”She and her husband Michael Zijlaard came out of surgery.Towards the end of the talks, they asked whether it was possible to try a cure,”said Janssen, a former doctor in various cycling professional teams, including PDM, BankGiroLoterij or Vacansoleil.In his family doctor’s office in Deurne he explained to the couple how to use the remedy.

Van Moorsel denied the allegations and denied EPO consumption:”The publication surprised me unpleasantly.I don’t see myself in what he describes in the article, and I’m surprised that he is now making these statements.The future of cycling is not served by these suspicions,”said the 47-year-old:” I still have no need to react to it.

Janssen also told his athletes that he gave advice on covering up doping in controls.Van Moorsel has never been tested positive.Her doping has been accused of doping before.In August 2016, Olympic champion and competitor Monique Knol accused her of this.

Janssen stated that from 1986 to 2010, well-known cyclists had been treated with banned substances and methods such as blood doping.During doping checks, he had retrospectively issued prescriptions for banned substances backdated.According to Janssen, the World Cycling Federation (UCI) provided him with information about test methods so that he could adapt his treatments and prevent positive tests.Janssen explained that he treated the Dutch cycling stars Steven Rooks, Geert-Jan Theunisse and Eddy Bouwmans, among others.

“The accusations come from a time when there was a lot going on in this area.If so, these cases have become statute-barred”, said Herman Ram, director of the Dutch anti-doping agency Doping Authority:”It happened more than ten years ago.Therefore, the doping authorities invest neither time nor energy in these cases.”

The Dutch Olympic Sports Federation NOCNSF stated in a statement that Janssen’s statements correspond to the results of the doping investigation commission in 2013.In this study, a large majority of Dutch cyclists admitted that they consumed doping substances in the 1990s until after the turn of the millennium.

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