Wheelmen by Reed Albergotti

Author:Reed Albergotti [Albergotti, Reed]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2013-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

I think we should explore every diplomatic avenue to resolve this dilemma rather than to make a judgment as to the accuracy of Greg’s claim, go through the legal cost of terminating his contract, lose the profits from the line only to find ourselves back in court with even bigger legal bills, one lost tour winner and one tainted 6 time winner. . . . I’m not so sure I’d “bet the farm” on Lance being completely clean.

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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