"Doctor" Jesus Losa is being investigated for doping cyclists, including Moises Dueñas and Maribel Moreno.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/police-inv...g-ring-in-spain

He was already named by David Millar as an EPO supplier, was canned from Euskaltel-Euskadi, then went to work at the Regional Medical Center of Sports Medicine in Castilla y León. A doping "doctor" working at a Sports Medicine Center? This appears to be the best way to go about it, as has been proved in Italy and Germany already.

Like for OP, a judge has already shelved the case once. The Spanish don't appear to be too keen to stop this kind of activity.

How do guys with doping reputations get to keep working with athletes?

Spain is cycling's sausage factory. With absolute protection from the law, who can be surprised that doping doctors continue to flourish in Spain.

Euskatel-Euskadi?

I always thought it was the orange jerseys and cool bikes that made them climb so fast.

Dave.

The sad thing is that Losa's activities over the past few years have been known within the Cycling community for a very, very long time (I heard about the first strong rumors of his renewed activities back in 2006 after news of Operation Puerto broke).

That aside, the CN article does not mention the evidence that suggests Francisco Mancebo and Luis Leon Sanchez are among Losa's customers.
- Among the evidence is an SMS from January 28, where Mancebo writes: "Call me so that we can make a dinner appointment where you can take something along for me.... we have a crisis." Losa's answer: "Ha, ha. Anytime my boy."
- After this year's Paris-Nice, Losa receives an SMS congratulating him on his "friends" win.

Apparently, a past Tour de France winner (name withheld) has also been incriminated via SMS's to Losa. The person apparently wrote to him (in February 2009): "I have had enough of the #### from the Tour. Fortunately I am not ambitious and took none of what you gave me - you have almost sent me into unemployment and ruined my career. I will not pay you another Euro.” (The identification of the person as a Tour winner essentially narrows this down to being either Armstrong, Pereiro, Contador, or Sastre - with Armstrong and Contador seeming the least likely to describe themselves as unambitious ).

Courtesy of SZ

Well that quote points overwhelmingly to Pereiro (couldn't be Sastre or Landis)...but it's all circumstantial of course.

But yeah it's amazing Losa is still active when Millar had named him and his name was coming up in the press in 2006. So much for a new day for cycling.

I thought Pereiro, too, speculating that he might've been offered products to give him another crack at the podium and that the mention of being almost sent into unemployment was his brush with doping authorities (and perhaps another situation we're not aware of).

Interested in your thinking, though.

Once again, another case of the doctors continuing to practice while the riders take the rap. Ferrari, for one, seemed to be a pioneer in avoiding responsibility - using cryptic marks in training plans that the authorities alleged were doping schedules, but he could maintain that they were just for Gatorade. Very difficult to prove.

http://books.google.com/books?id=M8UDAAAAM...;q=&f=false