It is one of the strongest images from the ski world championships in Seefeld last winter. The picture of how a disgraceful Max Hauke is caught by the police, with a needle in the arm in the middle of an ongoing blood transfusion.
Austria's anti-doping commission shut down both Hauke and national teammate Dominik Baldauf for four years for blood doping.
But there may be further penalties for Max Hauke.
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The police took the World Cup rider on a bar deed Admits partiallyOn Wednesday, a trial began in Innsbruck where the skier is being prosecuted for fraud.
The prosecutor claims that Hauke, by doping himself, unlawfully withdrew the equivalent of SEK 540,000 in prize money and sponsorship agreements.
Hauke admits that he has been doping since 2016, but denies that he has unlawfully made money from it, writes Austria's state television and radio channel ORF.
Defender Andreas Mauhart believes that the bulk of the amount the prosecutor refers to came from agreements that were not performance-based. The only requirement was that Hauke carried a logo - which he did.
Risking five years in prisonThe defense also stressed that Hauke never intended to hurt, he just wanted to ski and show up to the home crowd.
"He just wanted to be good in his last World Cup," Andreas Mauhart said during the trial.
If 27-year-old Hauke is convicted, he risks between six months and five years in prison. He has previously said that the skiing career is over.