Reports are circulating on the net that Rutger Beke tested positive (A and B samples) at a race in Belgium in September.
On the www.sport.be/fr/autres/?Article_ID=61627
it states that his manager and attorney have confirmed the positive tests. They are “perplexed.”
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Mark
From xtri.com:
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RUTGER BEKE REPORTED TO HAVE FAILED EPO DRUG TEST
DATE: 21-OCT-2004
Belgian media are reporting that Hawaii Ironman 5th place finisher, Rutger Beke, has failed a drug test for EPO relating to a European event some time ago.
The following article has been translated from the French original using Google Language Tools. Due to the serious nature of this report, xtri.com has not modified this translation in any way whatsoever but careful readers will be able to glean most of the information in it. A link to the original article appears at the foot of this page.
“Positive Beke by A+B the 20-10-2004 positive control whose the object the triathlète Rutger Beke was was confirmed by its trainer-manager and his lawyer. Entourage known as perplexed. The two men, in the absence of principal interested, caused Wednesday a press conference. The analyses of the sample B, carried out in Cologne (Germany), confirmed the presence of EPO (erythropoïétine) revealed in the first analysis carried out at Ghent. The entourage of Rutger Beke, controlled positive on 1 last September at the end of the triathlon of Zwin with Knokke, “expected to have to face one day with a problem because of the high rate of hématocrite of the triathlète of share his many training courses in altitude”. As for the presence of EPO, as attested in a letter of the Flemish Community dating from September 20, the entourage was said “perplexed”. “We called upon three scientists to show that Rutger did not take substances not prohibited, because we are absolutely sure of his innocence. Rutger rejects any form of doping. For would it have risked all of a blow, whereas all had gone well for two years? It very gave for arrived where it is, it did everything, except disavowing certain principles.” And to continue: “It does not matter what that must cost, we will manage to prove that Rutger is innocent. There is perhaps an error in the blood analyses, or perhaps that the body of Rutger reacts in such manner that a control can be positive. It is a work of specialists, but I know that Rutger is clean with 100 PC.” Rutger Beke should return to Belgium Friday morning of Hawaii where it had taken the 5th place of Ironman.”
Source: Sport.be
More Info: http://www.sport.be/fr/autres/?Article_ID=61627