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Originally Posted by weiwentg
On balance, I can definitely live with Vaughters. Some of you who were in the Chris Horner thread are going to ask, how is your stance on Vaughters consistent with your stance on Horner? The answer for me is pretty clear. Vaughters has been a lot more honest on balance than Horner.
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Honest? Vaughters told USADA a BS story about how he only doped a few times after he left Postal using leftover EPO, which evidently lasted for years and years after he purchased it. Uh-huh. Yet when he retired the pros who moved into his place complained about all the needles and drug paraphernalia he left behind. Tygart bought into the unbelievable story because it supported the narrative he wanted to create.
I know that during the 2006 TdF Vaughters made a presentation to a group of potential backers. He pitched a team based around Floyd Landis, and he assured them Floyd was clean despite knowing not only that Floyd was doping but that Floyd would continue to dope after he joined the team. The two talked about it before the presentation. Now maybe Floyd getting busted led to a major change in Vaughters thinking, but at the very least what he was presenting to the public at that time and what he was presenting to his team, or at least certain riders, was very different.