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This old chestnut is trotted out every few years, whenever a rider does well. Yet the fact remains that Dr Ibarguren has never been convicted of any anti-doping violation. Whether that means he's innocent is another matter, but you can convict people on hearsay and speculation from internet anti-doping crusaders.
The fact that Gilbert has been winning big one day races from his neo-pro days onwards would suggest he has a modicum of natural talent.
andyp-
Course not, I have a bit of a theory that a few of these doctors have different packages, a doping one, and an everything-but-doping one, maybe in his early years he tried to do the latter too much and got limited "success", then doped them all up, and now he's just pushing the absolute limits with Phil Gil.
Still though, you can't deny that it smells just a bit fishy
noBlakes
Came here to post and thought I'd check a few pages back... you know that thing about him tearing up in 2011, and it looking really dodgy, well he worked with a certain doctor that year, Dr. Jose Ibarguren Taus, guess who just got added to the Quickstep staff roster...:
http://www.quickstepfloorscycling.com/en/team/staff
http://www.cyclismas.com/biscuits/so-just-who-is-dr-jose-ibarguren-taus/