The Austrian cross-country skier Johannes Dürr talked about his doping fraud and was the first winter athlete ever to give blood doping in Germany. He had taken blood in hotels in Oberhof, Munich and Irschenberg and later returned, said the 31-year-old in the ARD reportage "The Greed for Gold - The Road to the Doping Trap".
Dürr was convicted at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi of Epo doping and later locked for two years. He is currently training for a comeback to start at the home World Championships in Seefeld. His doping helpers do not want to name the Austrians by name.
With self-blood doping he started in 2013 after the tip of a competitor. "The repatriation has always taken place on the ground, in the competitions - for example, before the Tour de Ski," said Dürr. In Oberhof, he received the blood in a parking lot in a car: "That was not really noticeable - there was the tube in the vein, you squeezed the blood bag, and then the blood ran back."
ÖSV denies allegations of assistance
In the Tour 2013/2014 Dürr surprisingly won the mountain pursuit in Val di Fiemme and was overall third, the results are now canceled. It also came to the "cures" in a motel at the rest area in the Bavarian Irschenberg on the A8 as well as at the airport and in the city center of Munich.
He also doped with Epo and growth hormone, Dürr said. It should also have helped him staff of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV). The ÖSV denies that. "The answer is a clear No. I do not know such cases Individual offenders will always exist, but escape my knowledge," said the anti-doping officer of the ÖSV, Wolfgang Schobersberger, in the documentation of ARD-doping editors. Dürr is now forbidden to claim that the association tacitly tolerate doping.