First Edition Cycling News for January 9, 2005 (Cyclingnews.com)

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In the doping case involving veterinarian José Landuyt and Belgian cycling star Johan Museeuw, the public prosecutor of Kortrijk (Belgium) issued a final evaluation on Friday.

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/cycling+racing/SIG=124386o1o/*http%3A//www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2005/jan05/jan09news

 

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From the cycle-news article, and what should be an extract of the case-files:

SMS messages sent from Landuyt to Museeuw clearly indicate the veterinarian advised the rider on how to use what they call "wasps", a code name for Aranesp which was confirmed by Landuyt. In a message to Museeuw dated July 7, 2003, Landuyt wrote, "Now you should take 80 to 100 wasps, and upon departure on July 9, minimum 40 and maximum 60, then you will be clean as of July 19."

It continues:

On July 27, Museeuw sent a message to Landuyt saying: "I have 52", to which Landuyt responded "Take salt and drink a lot." One day later, Landuyt again received an SMS from Museeuw that said "Still 52", to which he replied, "Snuff salt and drink a lot." The court considered it highly probable the Belgian rider was trying to bring down his haematocrit level, which must be under 50 in order to be declared fit for racing under UCI rules.

IMO if cyclingnews' article isn't too distorted and the case-files aren't totally fabricated, well I'd say that this is clear and irrefutable evidence as to Johan Museeuw taking drugs in 2003. Ahh well another withdrawal from the "there are still heroes in cycling"-bankaccount

Btw. It's more than obvious that the cheats need to learn more basic spycraft using non-encrypted messaging just isn't going to work .