FUENTES: 51 RIDERS TO BE QUESTIONED

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Spanish newspaper reports say official requests for questioning of 51 bike riders have now been sent by the Spanish judge overseeing Operacion Puerto, Antonio Serrrano, to seven different countries. According to Spanish newspaper ?AS? the riders, which include American Tyler Hamilton (pictured), recent Discovery Channel signing Ivan Basso and 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich, will all be questioned by judges in their own countries.

The six questions riders will have to answer are much more detailed than initially expected. Not only will do the questions investigate the riders? relationship with Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor at the centre of Operacion Puerto, the riders will also be asked if  they have had blood transfusions and in which laboratory. 200 bags of blood were seized by police during Operacion Puerto, although so far investigators are believed only to have conclusively linked two to specific, as yet un-named, riders.

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