There was more on that story last month. A Spanish court ordered their release and they've been taken in by WADA and UCI for analysis. Whether anything comes out about footballers remains to be seen but I suspect unless there is widespread proof it was an overwhelming number of players from any one team, I wouldn't expect to see any major impact as a result.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/operation-puerto-blood-bags-be-released-uci-wada-after-court-ruling-overturned-1565411 http://www.espnfc.com/spanish-primera-division/story/2909811/wada-to-analyse-operation-puerto-blood-samples-from-2006
The entire Messi Hands up "show your support" thing is the worst thing I've seen. I scroll past it because I feel so embarrassed for them.
Best thing they could have done was just stay quiet about the entire thing and let it disappear slowly.
Tam wrote: There was more on that story last month. A Spanish court ordered their release and they've been taken in by WADA and UCI for analysis. Whether anything comes out about footballers remains to be seen but I suspect unless there is widespread proof it was an overwhelming number of players from any one team, I wouldn't expect to see any major impact as a result. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/operation-puerto-blood-bags-be-released-uci-wada-after-court-ruling-overturned-1565411 http://www.espnfc.com/spanish-primera-division/story/2909811/wada-to-analyse-operation-puerto-blood-samples-from-2006
...and the statute of limitations will most likely apply to most WADA-violation they would discover.