The Director General of the World Anti-Doping Agency, David Howman, has criticized the decision of the judge in the Operation Puerto trial to not release more than 200 blood bags for inspection.

Dr Eufemiano Fuentes was given a one-year suspended sentence on Tuesday for endangering public health in the way he performed blood extractions and transfusions on a number of high-profile cyclists.

However, Judge Julia Patricia Santamaria did not release the blood bags seized from properties belonging to Fuentes in 2006 and indeed ordered them to be destroyed pending appeals from those parties involved.