Implicated in several doping cases, Doctor Bernard Sainz revealed having provided advice to Mauro Gianetti, manager of the Tadej Pogacar team.
Its name is as evocative as that of Doctor Michele Ferrari, also involved in countless doping cases, including the Armstrong scandal. If he has always denied having boosted runners, Doctor Bernard Sainz has been sentenced on numerous occasions for doping and has been canceled from medicine.
Questioned in the columns of West FranceThe one who is nicknamed the “Doctor Mabuse” nevertheless claimed his innocence. “My reputation is rumors, these are not specific facts,” he said. I never had a runner who was controlled positive for doping control. Never. It is when you have an anti -doping control in a team that the federation tries to know who the doper is to continue the doper. I was prosecuted when I did not have a doped runner. »»
According to him, if many runners have done and still call on his advice, it is only for his fasting and nutrition methods. And his methods would be put into works by the greatest cadors of the peloton, Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar in mind.
“I guess it’s Pogacar who did the fast”
“Mathieu Van der Poel recovered all the recommendations I gave to his grandfather, Raymond Poulidor. Yes, our paths crossed. There is a transmission ”, He thus entrusted to the subject of the Dutchman.
“I will take another example. Four years ago, a former Swiss runner called me. I brought him in the French games in 1997. He was so happy with his first year that he offered me his bike, it is a beautiful gift. This former runner is Mauro Gianetti, the manager of the UAE team, and he said to me: ‘When I was a cyclist, you made me go fasts, it was fantastic, I was in great shape, brand new. I advance a little in age, I would like to redo one ‘,
He explained about the manager of Tadej Pogacar. So I send him all the remedies, Amazon plants, three days of fasting, five days of acidic fruit, one or two weeks of refeeding, nutritherapy and he reminds me two months later by saying to me: ‘What is it like your fasting of sportsmen’. So I guess it was Pogacar who did the fast. But I was never related to Pogacar. On the other hand, Gianetti still asks me for a lot of advice. »»
