djg21
12-05-2013, 09:20 PM
Nothing we didn't know or at least presume, but some new facts.
During the 1999 Tour de France, Lance Armstrong returned four test samples that contained traces of corticosteroids.
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Although one of the positive tests was already publicly known, The Independent reports that UCI has confirmed it in fact knew about four positive tests from that competition. Armstrong admitted earlier this year that his TUE had been backdated. However, things actually get worse for the UCI. The organization retested those samples six years later, in 2005, to find that they also contained blood-boosting EPO. Since the B samples had been destroyed over that period, Armstrong could not be charged with a doping offense.
http://nesn.com/2013/04/lance-armstrong-failed-four-drug-tests-during-1999-tour-de-france-admits-uci/
During the 1999 Tour de France, Lance Armstrong returned four test samples that contained traces of corticosteroids.
-snip-
Although one of the positive tests was already publicly known, The Independent reports that UCI has confirmed it in fact knew about four positive tests from that competition. Armstrong admitted earlier this year that his TUE had been backdated. However, things actually get worse for the UCI. The organization retested those samples six years later, in 2005, to find that they also contained blood-boosting EPO. Since the B samples had been destroyed over that period, Armstrong could not be charged with a doping offense.
http://nesn.com/2013/04/lance-armstrong-failed-four-drug-tests-during-1999-tour-de-france-admits-uci/