and slams the lab and the UCI doctor!!!!!
from cyclingnews:
UCI lawyer asks for Armstrong's name to be cleared
According to Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, the UCI's chief lawyer says Lance Armstrong should be cleared of any suspicion surrounding the retrospective testing of his blood samples from the 1999 Tour de France. In late August last year, the seven-time Tour de France winner was at the centre of French newspaper L'Equipe's allegations, who claimed Armstrong's first Tour victory was aided by perennial blood-boosting agent erythropoietin (EPO).
The lawyer, Emile Vrijman, denounced the manner in which the doping laboratory in Châtenay-Malabry carried out its research, as well as questioning the ethics of World Anti-Doping Agency chairman, **** Pound. Furthermore, Vrijman said the French scientists who worked on the retrospective testing facilitated the ease with which L'Equipe journalist Damien Ressiot obtained the documentation that listed riders' code numbers against each of the urine samples tested, who was then able to match the code numbers against the doping control forms mistakenly given out by UCI doctor Mario Zorzoli.
Despite Zorzoli handing out these forms under a false pretence, Vrijman believed it was definitely not enough to identify Armstrong as guilty of taking EPO. Again slamming the Châtenay-Malabry laboratory for its research methods, he said it was "irresponsible to suggest the results of the 1999 analyses contain enough proof [to convict Armstrong]".
from cyclingnews:
UCI lawyer asks for Armstrong's name to be cleared
According to Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, the UCI's chief lawyer says Lance Armstrong should be cleared of any suspicion surrounding the retrospective testing of his blood samples from the 1999 Tour de France. In late August last year, the seven-time Tour de France winner was at the centre of French newspaper L'Equipe's allegations, who claimed Armstrong's first Tour victory was aided by perennial blood-boosting agent erythropoietin (EPO).
The lawyer, Emile Vrijman, denounced the manner in which the doping laboratory in Châtenay-Malabry carried out its research, as well as questioning the ethics of World Anti-Doping Agency chairman, **** Pound. Furthermore, Vrijman said the French scientists who worked on the retrospective testing facilitated the ease with which L'Equipe journalist Damien Ressiot obtained the documentation that listed riders' code numbers against each of the urine samples tested, who was then able to match the code numbers against the doping control forms mistakenly given out by UCI doctor Mario Zorzoli.
Despite Zorzoli handing out these forms under a false pretence, Vrijman believed it was definitely not enough to identify Armstrong as guilty of taking EPO. Again slamming the Châtenay-Malabry laboratory for its research methods, he said it was "irresponsible to suggest the results of the 1999 analyses contain enough proof [to convict Armstrong]".