Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever by Albergotti Reed & O'Connell Vanessa

Author:Albergotti, Reed & O'Connell, Vanessa [Albergotti, Reed]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Meanwhile, in a laboratory outside Paris, more trouble was brewing for Armstrong. The French anti-doping agency, AFLD (Agence Française de Lutte Contre le Dopage), was conducting tests on urine samples from the 1999 Tour de France. In 1999, there had been no test for EPO, but now that there was one, the lab wanted to get a sense of how many cyclists had used the drug during that year’s race. About fifty samples were still in good enough condition to be retested, and out of those fifty, a dozen were positive. Six of those tests shared the same rider identification number, but since the numbers were anonymous, the lab had no idea who the rider was. Someone at the lab leaked the rider number to French journalist Damien Ressiot, who wrote for L’Équipe, a French national daily sports newspaper.

Ressiot had an idea how to find out which rider matched the anonymous number.

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