Sports Litigation Update: European Roundup
By Andy Brown
Sporting bodies appeal decision not to release ‘Operación Puerto’ blood bags
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the Spanish anti-doping agency (AEA) separately announced that they would appeal a decision not to hand over blood bags connected with Operación Puerto, a police investigation into doping that ended with the sentencing of Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes and Ignacio Labarta to imprisonment. The blood bags, which number over 100, were seized as part of th