Austrian triathlete admits to doping only after getting caught, and allegedly trying to bribe the lab tech.
“Austrian triathlete Lisa Huetthaler, who was suspended last fall for using an endurance boosting hormone, has admitted to doping in a newspaper interview published Friday.
In October, Huetthaler was banned for two years by Austria’s national anti-doping agency for testing positive for EPO. She was also under investigation for allegedly attempting to bribe a laboratory employee last spring to guarantee that her “B” sample didn’t return with the same result as her initial positive test.” http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/27/sports/ATH-Austria-Doping.php
She is also accused of purposely crashing out Kate Allen during an ITU race last year, in order to help her own chances of making the Austrian Olympic team.
"Austrian pediatrician and Ironman triathlete Dr. Andreas Zoubek stands currently accused by the Austrian newspaper KURIER of running a doping operation alongside his day job at the St. Anna Kinderspital, a children’s hospital in Vienna, Austria.
Zoubek, who has the nickname “Irondoc,” took up triathlon only in
the last few years. He placed an impressive 4th at the recent Ironman
Florida in the M50-54 behind the age-group winner Joe Bonness. He
earned a spot in the 2009 Ironman Hawaii, but a few days later his
world became more complicated, when the KURIER contacted him about
allegations of doping."
Above is a photo from the N.Z ITU race a year ago.
I think it is honourable that she has come clean about using drugs(erythropoetin).
It is costing all the rest of us alot of money in court costs through supporting our national federations to take all this through the courts.
Am very against the use of ilegal drugs or banned techniques for improving perforamnce.
I was offered steroids at a gym when only 19year old for a sport and turned away.
When I wrote the above before on ‘ST’ one person from the USA replied that it wasn’t a big deal. That reflects the sad fact that it is easy to obtain in the USA.
One reason i am quite passionate about saying how wrong it is that a woman from the USA(20 years ago), told me that many young men were dying of heart attacks in college from anabolic steroid abuse/usage. She was crying and very upset about it all and said there had been a real spate of it happening at the time.
So am only returning the plea (after all these years), from the mothers of your country that infleunced me so much when I was about 19 years old. That is where I have been coming from all along.
Here is the interview (in german): http://www.kurier.at/...ia/bilder/306211.php
Good interview. Not a fan that she makes herself out to be a victim and forced into it, but it appears that most ex-dopers use this justification.
Man, she’s pretty. Sad she has no morality.
By definition, sociopaths have “no morality.” Are you saying she is a sociopath?
Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. Are you saying she is a rectangle?
Agreed. I exaggerated - it’s a shame she doesn’t respect her competition or fans enough to race clean.
from google translate of the article in the Kurier:
[Exclusive: first ventured a step from the Sportswoman of anonymity. Triathlete Lisa Hütthaler on doping, dealer, and threats behind.
A Märztag in Vienna’s Augarten. The weather? As in April. It blows, it snows, the sun suddenly appears. This fits the mood of Hütthaler Lisa, a 25-year-old former triathlete, ex-military world. She seems agitated, anxious, and yet determined. Hütthaler will conclude sometime new Right. She has a doping case (spring 2008) behind her. But not unpacked. Like nearly all of them. For fear of the men behind.] Not a very good translation but I get the gist of it. She is right to be worried. The guys she named could be a bit upset with her, that much is for sure. G.
People here say she is pretty. From what I have heard and read - take it FWIW please! - she might have chosen drugs to let triathlon be her platform as intellectually she would not have been on public focus.
And another remark with respect to the long term risks of EPO.
EPO enables harder and more training which likely results in a quicker wear-out of the body. Be 40 look 50. I saw such a walking dead recently in Clermont/FL at the NTC.
