"I know what happened at Barcelona '92 and I'm a Pandora's Box that, if opened one day, could bring down sport,"said Cristina Perez recently.
Perez, the wife of the doctor at the center of Spain's biggest doping investigation, says Spanish sport would be ruined if she revealed all she knows about drug use among athletes.
Former runner Cristina Perez said Spain's record medal performance at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics was in part thanks to husband Eufemianio Fuentes, the doctor at the center of cycling's Operation Puerto case.
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"I know what happened at Barcelona '92 and I'm a Pandora's Box that, if opened one day, could bring down sport," Perez was quoted as saying by La Provincia newspaper. "But out of respect for my companions, the people who sacrificed so much, I'm staying quiet. Although I could speak out and ruin all those caught up in this little world."
Fuentes was one of five people arrested in May 2006 after Spanish police raided apartments in Madrid and Zaragoza and uncovered a blood doping ring that would implicate over 50 cyclists.
Perez, who said that all "all elite athletes and regular athletes were implicated" in doping networks across the world, criticized the government for making Fuentes a doping scapegoat after he helped many Spanish athletes win Olympic medals.
"To call a doctor dedicated to sports science who has killed no one a criminal mastermind seems shameful to me," she said."