UK Athletics has been accused of encouraging Brett Morse, the British discus thrower, to leave his South Wales training stable and work with a coach who was banned for taking anabolic steroids.

Vesteinn Hafsteinsson, a former discus thrower, tested positive for the steroid nandrolone during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and was suspended for two years.

From Telegraph.co.uk:

UK Athletics says it was Morse’s personal decision to change coaches and insists it is not paying Hafsteinsson for his services.

But Bevan, who competed for Britain in the javelin at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, claims the move to Hafsteinsson was orchestrated by UK Athletics. He cites an email, seen by Telegraph Sport, which was sent to him by UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee on Oct 16, 2010.

“We identified a need for greater technical input into Brett’s training and a person who could deliver that to the athlete and his coach in a controlled and monitored environment. The athlete has now chosen to work with this coach,” a spokeswoman for UK Athletics said.

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Cristina Perez is a woman scorned by the Spanish authorities and she threatens to retaliate.

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” says the character (incidentally named Perez) of a William Congreve’s play, and Perez plans to get back at her husband’s defamers by revealing Spanish athletes’ usage of steroids and other prohibited compounds.

Perez’s husband, Dr.  Eufemianio Fuentes, was arrested in 2006 in Operation Puerto for his alleged role in the country’s biggest blood doping ring.

“To call a doctor dedicated to sports science who has killed no one a criminal mastermind seems shameful to me,” Perez said.

“I know what happened at Barcelona ’92 and I’m a Pandora’s Box that, if opened one day, could bring down sport,” Perez she told a Spanish newspaper. “But out of respect for my companions, the people who sacrificed so much, I’m staying quiet. Although I could speak out and ruin all those caught up in this little world.”

Perez, who also ran on Spain’s 1,600-meter relay team at the 1992 Olympics, was referring to  Spain’s medal haul in Barcelona ‘92 wherein the host country won 13 gold, seven silver and two bronze medals. Four years earlier at Seoul Olympics, Spain was able to grab one gold, one silver, and two bronze medals only. The improvement in the medal tally, according to Perez, was largely due to the doctor’s work.

Operation Puerto has implicated more than 50 professional riders, including Francesco Mancebo, Alejandro Valverde, Oscar Sevilla, Jose Gutierrez, and Alberto Contador. Contador was the 2007 Tour de France champion.

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