Dear colleagues, as a lot of you have asked me to email you once we are airing anything interesting in our dedicated

field of sports politics, just wanted to inform you that yesterday we have aired on "sport inside" a follow-up story on our coverage over the last years concerning the trial against Eufemiano Fuentes and Spain's effort against doping. This is the link for the German version: http://www.wdr.de/tv/sport_inside/sendungsbeitraege/2013/0325/antidoping_spanien.jsp The director of the Spanish Anti-doping Agency (AEA), Ana Munoz, did say in her first TV interview: "On the day the trial ends me personally, I will go and ask the judge to give me all the documents, proves, as well as all the blood bags. And then, we will undertake every action to find and identify the athletes and sports involved in the Fuentes case." Apart from the Fuentes case, based on our research for "sport inside" two doctors involved in doping allegations are still actively working as doctors in Valencia. Walter Viru, a friend of Fuentes, was reportedly the team doctor of Kelme next to Eufemiano Fuentes. He was also the main suspect in the doping "operacion grial" in 2009. Nevertheless, he is still working for a public institute in Valencia, paid by the state. Furthermore, Luis Garcia del Moral, banned world-wide as a main suspect in the Armstrong doping case is still working within one of Valencia's biggest sports medicine institutes. He gets paid by public money as well. The World AntiDoping Agency as well as the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency have been investigating this as well. Asked for a statement concerning del Moral, Ana Munoz indicated that there are investigations going on in Spain as an outcome of the Lance Armstrong case. "What I can you so far is that we are following up the Armstrong case. Not only because we were involved in the investigations back then but also because we are really interested that every person Spanish or not - who has committed a crime in our country is gonna be prosecuted." Sport inside is also analyzing the new anti-doping law in Spain. We are critizising that the new law doesn't change much and doesn't include a right to penalize the athlete in criminal law. Concerning the new anti-doping law in Spain, Gonzalo Camarero of the office of the Spanish attorney general tells "sport inside" openly: "In general, the new law doesn't include many changes to the letter one. The new law is only adapting the World Anti-Doping Code. Of course, the interest to host Olympic Games in Spain does play a role in this as well." Ignacio Arroyo, lawyer of the national Olympic comitee of Italy (CONI) in the Fuentes case, critizes the law: "Spain can do more. Every judge in Spain has the right to make propositions to improve laws. The Fuentes trial is a good chance to improve the law and to penalize the athlete, like in France or Italy."