***gee: Santi Perez Also Positive? ***

Originally Posted by hombredesubaru

The word is that he is positive for blood doping, aka transfusion.
This is really bad folks.
Tyler is guilty.
Perez is guilty.
Phonak etc etc etc

read'em and weep.

Velo News:

(Phonak), runner-up in the 2004 Vuelta a España, may have tested positive for blood doping, according to the Spanish daily MARCA.
The daily suggests that the result may have come from the A sample in an out-of-competition test, adding that it is not yet certain whether the alleged blood doping involved the transfusion of Perez' own blood or the blood of another.

MARCA also suggested that there might have been a procedural problem with the examination of the B sample, saying that neither Perez nor a representative of his team was present.
This might explain the delay in any official announcement from the UCI or the Spanish cycling federation, as well as the failure to date of Phonak and Perez to reach agreement on a new contract, the daily added.
Perez, the revelation of this year's Vuelta, abruptly withdrew from the Spanish world's team on September 27, citing a bout of gastroenteritis. Earlier, American Tyler Hamilton abandoned the Vuelta, also blaming stomach problems, after his A sample tested positive for blood doping at the Athens Olympics and both A and B samples tested positive at the Vuelta.

Hamilton's B sample from Athens was mishandled and the International Olympic Committee subsequently ended its inquiry into the matter, though he still faces a possible two-year suspension for the positive at the Vuelta.

Both Hamilton and Phonak proclaim innocence in the matter and plan to challenge the test as scientifically untrustworthy.

Originally Posted by hombredesubaru

The word is that he is positive for blood doping, aka transfusion.
This is really bad folks.
Tyler is guilty.
Perez is guilty.
Phonak etc etc etc

read'em and weep.

Originally Posted by hombredesubaru

The word is that he is positive for blood doping, aka transfusion.
This is really bad folks.
Tyler is guilty.
Perez is guilty.
Phonak etc etc etc

read'em and weep.

Velo News:

(Phonak), runner-up in the 2004 Vuelta a España, may have tested positive for blood doping, according to the Spanish daily MARCA.
The daily suggests that the result may have come from the A sample in an out-of-competition test, adding that it is not yet certain whether the alleged blood doping involved the transfusion of Perez' own blood or the blood of another.

MARCA also suggested that there might have been a procedural problem with the examination of the B sample, saying that neither Perez nor a representative of his team was present.
This might explain the delay in any official announcement from the UCI or the Spanish cycling federation, as well as the failure to date of Phonak and Perez to reach agreement on a new contract, the daily added.
Perez, the revelation of this year's Vuelta, abruptly withdrew from the Spanish world's team on September 27, citing a bout of gastroenteritis. Earlier, American Tyler Hamilton abandoned the Vuelta, also blaming stomach problems, after his A sample tested positive for blood doping at the Athens Olympics and both A and B samples tested positive at the Vuelta.

Hamilton's B sample from Athens was mishandled and the International Olympic Committee subsequently ended its inquiry into the matter, though he still faces a possible two-year suspension for the positive at the Vuelta.

Both Hamilton and Phonak proclaim innocence in the matter and plan to challenge the test as scientifically untrustworthy.

Originally Posted by steve

This isn't gonna help TH

Originally Posted by mareblu

oops! I JUST POSTED ANOTHER TOPIC FOR THIS NEWS. SORRY!

I am more puzzled now than ever! or shall I say feeling betrayed?
I did not want to condemn Tyler just yet. But dear God, is this too coincidental or what?
Oh boy......

Originally Posted by Roadrash Dunc

Phonak = Festina.

Tyler = Virenque.


Perhaps if he cries on camera he will be allowed to start the TdF and who knows , even win the thing.2005 will be his best and probably last chance.

Originally Posted by gntlmn

Perhaps, but it appears Phonak may be losing it's Pro Tour license. Their last chance to be heard by UCI will be November 22. http://www.velonews.com/news/fea/7201.0.html