{"id":158843,"date":"2020-09-21T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158843"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:31:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:31:31","slug":"road-bike-german-doctor-accused-as-mastermind-of-doping-network-goes-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=158843","title":{"rendered":"Road Bike &#8211; German Doctor Accused as Mastermind of Doping Network Goes on Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A German doctor accused of being the mastermind of an international blood-doping network that was dismantled last year went on trial in Munich on Wednesday. Sports physician Mark Schmidt, 42, and four co-defendants who allegedly aided him, are accused of helping at least two dozen athletes undergo blood transfusions to boost performance illicitly from \u201cthe end of 2011 at the latest\u201d, according to state prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe accuse this sports doctor and his helpers of using doping substances on a commercial basis and in gangs,\u201d senior prosecutor Anne Leiding told Munich\u2019s regional court.<\/p>\n<p>If found guilty, Schmidt and his co-defendants could be\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/roadbikeaction.com\/german-doctor-accused-as-mastermind-of-doping-network-goes-on-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German doctor accused of being the mastermind of an international blood-doping network that was dismantled last year went on trial in Munich on Wednesday. Sports physician Mark Schmidt, 42, and four co-defendants who allegedly aided him, are accused of helping at least two dozen athletes undergo blood transfusions to boost performance illicitly from \u201cthe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-misc","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158844,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158843\/revisions\/158844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}