I can see how he might with the connivance of UCI be able to quash one result although where is the evidence? Has anyone asked the Swiss lab because the Swiss are nothing if not fastidious in recording the details? I would have thought if Hamilton had told the USADA that, armed with the details and his ID number they could have gone in and got hold of the original positive test and we would not be talking about results that "are consistent with doping" but of a failed and suppressed EPO test uncovered.
But we are talking mainly about the Tour de France, a race in which the testing lab, LNDD, has direct links into L'Equipe which has often published the results before UCI, the rider or WADA had received them and L'Equipe is no friend of Armstrong. It was even L'Equipe that first broke the leaked retrospective test results for EPO IIRC. So how in seven TdeF's did he manage to noble that whole system?
And why have a motorbike with EPO follow the peleton? I thought the whole point was you doped with EPO and then let it flush out the system leaving behind long lasting performance enhancement. So why did they need to top up on it after every race and why carry it round in a motorbike with the peleton and not take it direct to somewhere near the end of the stage if they did indeed need post race top-ups?
Many many questions which will need to await publication of the book. But even then as a twice caught and banned doper he must have limited earning opportunities and no publisher is going to be that interested in a book from him without something tasty to sell it (curious its due out a couple of weeks after the USADA decision) and it basically a book about his life of doped cycling both with and without LA. So whatever is said in the book has to be viewed with some caution.
