This story just gets more odd by the minute. If TH knew about this why didn't he resolve this problem when he received these warnings?!? Like the article states, it takes incredible audacity or stupidity to continue racing when authorities have alerted you to borderline results.In its September 23 edition, the French sports daily l'Equipe reported that the UCI sent letters of notification to Hamilton after both the Tour de Romandie (which he won) and the Dauphine Libere (where he was a close second to Iban Mayo), warning him of what l'Equipe called "strange fluctuations" in certain values of his blood tests.
Also, how can TH now claim to be so utterly shocked by the IOC/Vuelta results if he was warned after two races?
**** Pound weighs in on the issue
From the article:
No sympathy from Mr. Pound. Not that I expected any...Without mentioning Hamilton by name, Pound told a meeting of Toronto's business community, "It appears a cyclist might have escaped this net because of human error, but I can assure you it's no longer a gold medal in the eyes of the world.
"But if nothing else, we got him on the second bounce."
Its worth noting that Pound is a lawyer and even he apparently doesn't believe in "innocent until proven guilty".