BANNED FOR LIFE: Lance Armstrong To Be Stripped Of Tour De France Titles Over Doping Charges

[DanTex]

103. Umm... no, there were no problems with "chain of custody"

The samples were labeled with numbers, not names, so the people doing the tests had no idea whose sample was whose. So even if the wanted to spike them with EPO, they wouldn't have known which ones were Armstrong's. A journalist then got hold of the register which matched samples to riders. Of course they whole "they spiked the samples" argument is already pretty hopeless because there are no recorded instances in modern sports of a lab intentionally doing something like that.

Also, EPO was not made illegal retroactively. It was illegal the whole time, just there was not test for it. That's why Lance (and many others) were able to pass so many tests.

Also, you forgot about the corticosteroids. He only provided a prescription after he tested positive. His masseuse told the press that they backdated the prescription, but even if they didn't, it was still a violation of protocol. For obvious reasons, you need to list your medical exemptions before, not after, you test positive. Gee, I wonder why they let Lance slide for that... Could it maybe have something to do with the $125,000 he donated to UCI over the course of his career? Or the desire to have a "clean tour" after the disaster of 1998?