Doping confession from Dürr: Epo & blood bags in the car

Dürr had blood taken in hotels in Oberhof, Munich and Irschenberg, among others, and later had it returned, said the 31-year-old in the ARD report “The Greed for Gold - The Way into the Doping Trap”.

Caught in Sochi in 2014 Dürr was at the Olympic Games Convicted of EPO doping in Sochi in 2014 and was later banned for two years. The Lower Austrian does not want to name his doping helpers.

He started doping his own blood in 2013 after a tip from a competitor. “The repatriation always took place on site, at the competitions. For example before the Tour de Ski,” said Dürr. In Oberhof, where the stage race began on December 28, 2013, he received the blood in a car in a parking lot: “It wasn’t particularly noticeable. There was the tube in the vein, you squeezed the blood bag and then the blood came back.”

At the 2013/2014 Tour, Dürr surprisingly won the mountain pursuit in Val di Fiemme and came third overall, the results have now been deleted. The “cures” also took place in a motel at the Irschenberg service area on the A8 as well as at the airport and in downtown Munich. Dürr is fighting for a comeback at the World Cup in Seefeld Dürr also stated that he had doped with Epo and growth hormone. Staff from the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV) are said to have helped him. The ÖSV denies this. “The answer is a clear no. I am not aware of any such cases. There will always be individual perpetrators, but they are beyond my knowledge,” said the ÖSV’s anti-doping officer, Wolfgang Schobersberger, in the documentation from the ARD doping editorial team. Dürr is now prohibited from claiming that the association tacitly condones doping.

Dürr is currently fighting for a comeback in order to be able to compete again at the home World Cup in Seefeld, which begins at the end of February. He once said that his son Noah shouldn't have to be ashamed later. Dürr was married to Mirjam Taschler from Antholz, the daughter of the former vice president of the World Biathlon Association Gottlieb Taschler.

After the film was broadcast, the Munich I public prosecutor's office announced that it would initiate a lawsuit Investigation proceedings against unknown persons due to the use of doping methods.

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Doping confession from Dürr: Epo & blood bags in the car

The Austrian cross-country skier Johannes Dürr has made a disturbing confession about doping and is the first winter athlete to ever admit to blood doping in Germany.

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