Chamois cream laced with corticosteroids? No way!
Per Emma O'Reily who was in the room, that was a cover story which was supported by a TUE form completed to 'fix-it' per UCI descretion.
The corticosteroids were undoubtedly injected prior to the prologue time trial--as is custom for maximum efforts. Just ask Alex Zulle--he finished 2nd and did 20-40 mls per day---and never tested positive.
It all rigged for PR purposes.
Per Emma O'Reily who was in the room, that was a cover story which was supported by a TUE form completed to 'fix-it' per UCI descretion.
The corticosteroids were undoubtedly injected prior to the prologue time trial--as is custom for maximum efforts. Just ask Alex Zulle--he finished 2nd and did 20-40 mls per day---and never tested positive.
It all rigged for PR purposes.
holli said:Maybe I understood it wrong but Armstrongs visits to Ferrari, Armstrongs positive test (You have to be very stupid to use any cortisone cream as chamois cream because cortisone weakens the skin) and former team mates claims are pretty good proof for me. You are a doper for many people for even smaller issues than what Lance has had.
After 1998 only small things changed and testing etc. has increased only during last couple of years (after 2002) and there's still very long way to go.
I don't like either Lemond or Armstrong because they are "only-tour-riders" and the trend they are creating is terrifying because it is killing other races and transforming cycling more July-boring racing-slow suffering-nothing happening oriented.