Jean-Pierre Verdy: doping.My war against cheaters

With doping, my war against cheaters, Jean-Pierre Verdy, the former boss of the French agency for the fight against doping, does not deliver any scoop, or various, but testifies to the difficulty for an official institution to lead aJust fight, claimed by all, but yet underground fighting by many.Including by other institutions themselves.Uplifting.

It is a book that gives the thrill, the nausea itself.A sports enthusiast knows that cheating has been an integral part of her passion from the very origins.Yet when the abstract concept becomes a story, concrete facts, joy, passion crack, similar to the discovery of a fictitious Santa Claus.The toy is broken or at least cracked.These lies, Jean-Pierre Verdy preferred to face them in front and even track them down to denounce them.Coach of the French Modern Pentathlon team in Atlanta, he is fired for lack of results.Very quickly he converts and became a main player in the anti -doping fight by founding the Department of Controls of the AFLD (French Agency for Doping).

Many works concerning doping focuses on a news item, a personal confession, a targeted survey which could be the subject of a simple press article but which one completes, romance to make it a book.The major interest in the testimony of JP Verdy, lies in a fight waged from the inside, collectively, against cheaters, but also against institutions supposed to be the guarantors of their sport.It is against Armstrong, Vinokourov, or Fouad Chouki that the AFLD fights of course, but even more against powers.The football world thus seems untouchable and not concerned by doping while all the analyzes of the phanes (hairs, hair, nails) demonstrate the opposite.

Edifying these frightened cries of club presidents, federations which even refuse the idea of controls.Like those of the International Tennis Federation which favors the financial foundations of a lucrative activity in ethics.Of course cycling is at the heart of this institutional struggle with the obstacles led by the International Cycling Union (the UCI), a protective body of Lance Armstrong, the American runner, being the center of the struggle led by the AFLD, thatwhich gives nightmares to hundreds of controllers, by its arrogance, its way of challenging the authorities.His political protection, including that of Nicolas Sarkozy, is clearly exposed here.The figure of the winner of the Tour hovers on all pages of the book, an "perfect" example of an athlete whose cheating was discovered in 1999, by a positive control, absolved by an anti -dated order.A simple political courage would have from its origin which would become the greatest scandal of organized doping.

We feel the wear and tear caused by this struggle when you know how to hold the truth and not be able to reveal it for legal, political, media reasons, reveal it.We guess the passion for justice to Jean-Pierre Verdy as with all his colleagues to whom he pays a supported tribute, passion, but also misunderstanding, even anger, when you find yourself auditioned by the gendarmes by adisgusting of the situation.

JEAN-PIERRE VERDY : DOPAGE. MA GUERRE CONTRE LES TRICHEURS

These detailed institutional struggles are also supplemented by the evocation of certain names which have little hit the column, as their cases bored.The Juventus of Turin, the French team 98 and a Didier Deschamps at the hematocritance rate which would have prevented it from taking the start of the Tour de France if he had been a cycling runner, Ms. Longo who always refused to geolocate herself preventingThus unexpected controls because of its allergy to the airwaves, but also, and it is not the least interesting of the work, the evocation of doping among amateurs, those too numerous to be controlled, which "load"To correctly earn their lives in second level competitions or even simply to beat friends at the end of Sunday.

For a nadal whose entourage violently rejects the preversers, how many Fourcade or Estanguet who simply ask for more geolocation, but also more experienced praeters to avoid ....Hematomas?Or from Federer, the only tennis player asking for more blood controls?Half-words, between the lines, names are cited on both sides of the red line.To the attentive reader to sort.

The work which is based only on proven and judged facts, emits a single hypothesis: even doped at 300%, the performances of Armstrong, in particular its sudden mountain accelerations, are humanly possible in the opinion of allspecialists.Jean-Pierre Verdy then convinces his conviction: the American runner used mechanical doping.An area outside the competence of the anti -doping control specialist, now retired, but which gives way to other forms of deception as chestnut is universal and eternal.Even to win a basket or have your photo in the local pages of the regional newspaper.Verdy concludes by specifying that the fight continues to "preserve what makes the beauty of sport and the reason for its success, its essential principle: equality between men".There is no doubt that he will never end.

Doping.My war against the cheaters of Jean-Pierre Verdy, Éditions Arthaud.304 pages.€ 19.90.Publication: April 7, 2021.

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To consult to find out more: the cycling-doping site.com.

Reports of the Commission of Inquiry on the Anti-Doping Fight, on March 27, 2013, the hearing of Jean-Pierre Verdy is on page 2:

"What's going on in amateurs is very serious.The products used are the same as in professionals, but they are anarchically and in an impressive quantity: we have seen a father inject his son two to three times the dose of EPO that professionals receive.When you move in the field, during competitions, you see the parents filling cans, breaking bulbs and using powder ...

Today it is difficult to find high-level positive athletes, these can afford to protect themselves thanks to a very studied logistics and sufficiently fine protocols, unlike amateurs.Customs or gendarmerie still manage to seize products in their car or at their hotel.

Some clubs even have the means to have all their players tested by analysis laboratories in order to know if the protocols are respected.The controls therefore become more and more difficult for us… ”

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