Jef d'Hont

Joseph Leon D' hont, called Jef D' hont, ( born March 22, 1942 in Ghent ) is a former Belgian masseur of the cycling team Team Telekom, as an insider reported 2007 on systematic doping in cycling, more professional cyclists moved to confess and thus greater became famous for.

Career

D' hont was after his cycling career since 1964 a professional nurse ( a so-called soigneur ) in cycling. During his playing days he took unauthorized aids and confessed in 1963, use of amphetamines. Among his proteges in his over forty years of working as a caregiver was inter alia the later sports director at Team Telekom Walter Godefroot. From 1992 to 1996 was employed by D' hont at Team Telekom Godefroot, after his retirement, he was involved in the doping scandal during the Tour de France ( Festina affair) 1998. For his involvement in doping the team La Française des Jeux, for which he was working at the time, was sentenced D' hont the basis of anonymous notes in Festina process in December 2000 in Lille to nine months ' imprisonment.

Doping allegations against Team Telekom

Jef D' hont accused, inter alia, wielerverzorger in his published in April 2007 Book Memoires van een ( Memoirs of a Cyclist carer ) the Team Telekom team of organized and systematic doping with EPO in the early 90s. Both athletes, including the Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis and Jan Ullrich, as well as doctors and officials of the team were it knowingly involved. Due to the allegations of D' hont the doping researcher Werner Franke filed a lawsuit against the responsible Freiburg doctors of the team Telekom. In May 2007, confirmed by and by the former telecom professionals Bert Dietz, Udo Bölts, Christian Henn, Rolf Aldag, Erik Zabel, Brian Holm and Bjarne Riis, the statements D' honts in confessions. In June of the same year D' loaded hones in an interview in the newscast Tagesthemen again Jan Ullrich and accused him of having taken growth hormones and EPO.