Springtime For Frankenstein In Turin
Egg Shen want to know if these people are competing in the Olympics or trying to build Frankenstein monster?
TURIN (Reuters) - Three Austrian Winter Olympic golds provided a perfect counterweight to the extraordinary doping saga which continued to plague their team on Monday.
Yet the biathlon and cross-country skiing coach, whose presence in Italy had put the Austrians in such unwanted limelight when their bases were raided by police looking for drugs over the weekend, still haunted the team even though he had returned home.
Walter Mayer's admission to an Austrian psychiatric hospital was the latest almost surreal twist to a drama which has featured a night-time drugs raid by police, a car crash, an arrest and two Austrian athletes disappearing into the night.
"Walter Mayer is in the psychiatric hospital, unfortunately. He's in custody to protect himself because apparently he's said he wanted to commit suicide or something like that. I couldn't talk to him myself," Austrian Ski Federation president Peter Schroecksnadel told state radio ORF.
Mayer is banned from the Games over his involvement in a blood doping scandal at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002. He was not found during the raid.
On Sunday he crashed into an Austrian police roadblock after refusing a breath test for alcohol. He has been charged with civil disorder, an Austrian prosecutor said, and was sacked by the Austrian ski federation.
An Italian prosecutor said police had found drugs, syringes and blood transfusion equipment during Saturday night's raid on Austrian athletes.
More than 100 syringes, 30 packs of drugs as well as devices for transfusions and testing had been seized in the raid on the biathlon and cross-country teams, the official said.
TURIN (Reuters) - Three Austrian Winter Olympic golds provided a perfect counterweight to the extraordinary doping saga which continued to plague their team on Monday.
Yet the biathlon and cross-country skiing coach, whose presence in Italy had put the Austrians in such unwanted limelight when their bases were raided by police looking for drugs over the weekend, still haunted the team even though he had returned home.
Walter Mayer's admission to an Austrian psychiatric hospital was the latest almost surreal twist to a drama which has featured a night-time drugs raid by police, a car crash, an arrest and two Austrian athletes disappearing into the night.
"Walter Mayer is in the psychiatric hospital, unfortunately. He's in custody to protect himself because apparently he's said he wanted to commit suicide or something like that. I couldn't talk to him myself," Austrian Ski Federation president Peter Schroecksnadel told state radio ORF.
Mayer is banned from the Games over his involvement in a blood doping scandal at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002. He was not found during the raid.
On Sunday he crashed into an Austrian police roadblock after refusing a breath test for alcohol. He has been charged with civil disorder, an Austrian prosecutor said, and was sacked by the Austrian ski federation.
An Italian prosecutor said police had found drugs, syringes and blood transfusion equipment during Saturday night's raid on Austrian athletes.
More than 100 syringes, 30 packs of drugs as well as devices for transfusions and testing had been seized in the raid on the biathlon and cross-country teams, the official said.
posted by Egg Shen at 11:06 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home