Ur intervju med Michael Ashenden i Velo Nation:
VN: There have been suggestions that Lance Armstrong's data from 2008 - 2010 may be indicative of blood doping. Do you have a view on this? If you believe it's likely, how would this have fallen through the cracks of bio passport?
MA: There are two damning features present in Armstrong's blood values during the 2009 Tour de France. First, his haemoglobin values did not decline by the 10 percent or so that is typically found during three week stage races. In the Pellizotti case, the publicly available CAS decision shows that the CAS found that this characteristic demonstrated the use of blood doping practices. Second, his reticulocyte levels were below the average of the rest of his reported results. Both of those are consistent with the use of blood transfusions.
VN: As Armstrong's data was published, presumably his file was identifiable by the biopassport committee. Were there any decisions not to proceed, perhaps due to concerns it would lead to legal opposition or other consequences?
MA: Unless the experts re-opened one by one each of the several hundred anonymous passport files sent from UCI to check if the dates and values matched Armstrong's published values, there is no way we could have identified which anonymous file belonged to him. Plus at the time I think it would have taken a leap of faith to believe that Armstrong had published all of his values - so his real passport may well not have matched the published data anyways. It would have been like searching for a needle in a haystack, so I never bothered doing that.
Of course it was obvious to an expert eye that his published values during the 2009 Tour were not typical, but until and unless the file was sent to the experts it was completely outside our control. All that I could do was raise my concern at what I had seen published as Armstrong's values at one of our passport meetings. They listened, but I never heard anything more about it. Whether the UCI made a decision to proceed or not proceed is something only they could answer. To this day, I don't know whether Armstrong's passport file was ever sent to any of us experts.
Read more:
http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/1...-sent-to-any-of-us-experts.aspx#ixzz28zG0eA9d
KentS skrev:
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> Jag har inte hunnit läsa dokumentet men en sak
> jag undrar är att om en expert nu kan säga att
> blodpasset tydligt visar på manipulation, varför
> stoppades inte Armstrong redan 2009? Det var väl
> det som var idén med blodpasset, att kunna
> avslöja fusk, eller fanns inga experter som kunde
> tolka blodpasset på den tiden?
