Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes was last night found to have doped cyclists and was subsequently handed a one-year suspended jail sentence in Madrid.

The Spanish doctor at the heart of one of cycling’s biggest doping scandals has been found guilty of endangering public health and given a one-year suspended jail sentence in the Operation Puerto case.

A major trial over doping in cycling was beginning in Spain today, offering the prospect of new revelations about the sport’s dark side.