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Originally Posted by Joachim
So what was it then? And how do they avoid detecting?
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Regardless of what it was, it was easy enough to avoid individual tests for banned substances back in the Armstrong era, and it should still be possible to do so now. You may have to be more careful with dose and timing, of course.
The Passport isn't infallible. The UCI currently seem to be flagging cases very conservatively. See, for example, the article below on Chris Horner and LA. Both were in the passport system, but neither were flagged.
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15...#ixzz2iJ2z5SIi
Hence, it seems likely to me that you could outright cheat, but keep the doses small enough to skate under the radar. As to pushing the TUE system, the Wiggins case illustrates how it was pretty easy to manipulate it for systemic corticosteroids.