The Spanish cycling federation employs Dr. Fuentes' ex-clients, operates 'zero tolerance' doping policy - Town Square #14
The government-funded federation now employs Alejandro Valverde as its head coach and another senior official who were both implicated in the Operación Puerto doping scandal.
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In 2016, the Spanish doctor Luis Garcia del Moral told the Court of Arbitration for Sport that there had been an institutional doping system inside the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC) for the Atlanta 1996 Olympics.
Del Moral claimed that he had provided EPO and human growth hormone to the track team in his role as federation doctor. He supported these allegations with a spreadsheet dated four days before the start of the Games.
In the first half of 1996, the RFEC paid Del Moral 6,195,245 pesetas (€36,000) for ‘pharmaceuticals’ which the doctor said were actually prohibited drugs. There was also a payment to Lance Armstrong’s doping doctor Michele Ferrari who worked alongside Del Moral with the federation’s cyclists.