Cola cans, milk cartons: The doping tricks from Ullrich & Co.

Rudy Pevenage, long-time team boss and coach of Jan Ullrich, has unpacked. In his biography “The Rudy,” which was published on Thursday, the Belgian admits to long-standing doping practices and reports in detail about the dark machinations at the time.

Milk cartons and double-walled Cola cans Pevenage reports how he rented a hotel room with an extra refrigerator in Liège before the start of the tour in 2004. The blood bags were packed in empty milk cartons. A mountain biker codenamed Ali Baba served as a courier and delivered the packages to the riders at the hotel. “The can was double-walled and you could unscrew the top to fill and store medication.” Sometimes things got tricky, like during a raid in Italy in 2001, when Pevenage quickly broke an insulin syringe and flushed it down the toilet. The only thing he had forgotten was the cleverly prepared Cola can - apparently without any consequences. “The can was double-walled and you could unscrew the top to fill and store medication. Very convenient. The double wall meant the contents stayed cool and were indistinguishable from the outside from a real can of Coke,” explained Pevenage. So Pevenage was finally exposed Things weren't always so perfect. The connections between Fuentes and Ullrich were also revealed by Pevenage's cell phone breakdown during the 2006 Giro d'Italia. When Ullrich won the individual time trial, Pevenage wanted to tell Fuentes about it out of sheer joy. But his girlfriend's phone card was empty, so he used his own cell phone. “It wasn’t that smart, they wiretapped him. “So the investigators and the Spanish police suddenly had my number,” wrote Pevenage, who also admitted doping practices during his active career.

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Cola cans, milk cartons: The doping tricks from Ullrich & Co.

Double-walled Cola cans, blood bags in milk packets or code names for doping couriers: what makes a spy film just describes the sophisticated doping practices in cycling.

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