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Titolo: Gossip: una delle palle di Lance

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/oct06/oct16news
Versione super-ridotta del dialogo tra Andreu e Vaughters, due ex postini.
Armstrong ci imbrogliava dicendo che tutti si comportavano così 
(dopandosi). Alla Crédit Agricole non prendevamo niente...Moreau non 
prendeva niente, il suo ematocrito era 39...
etc...
Andreu and Vaughters "gossiped" about US Postal's alleged doping practices
L'Equipe, in its Saturday, October 14 edition, has published excerpts of 
an electronic conversation between Jonathan Vaughters, team director of 
development squad TIAA-Cref, and Frankie Andreu, former US Postal rider. 
The communication, which reportedly took place on July 26, 2005, was 
presented by Andreu's wife Betsy during the court case opposing Lance 
Armstrong and insurance company SCA in February 2006. In it, the two 
former teammates of the seven-times Tour de France winner, converse 
about doping within cycling, and, more precisely, within the US Postal 
team.
In the article, L'Equipe quotes Andreu, who has recently admitted that 
he used EPO to boost his performances in 1999, the first year Armstrong 
won the Tour, as writing that he was surprised when Vaughters said that 
during his time at Crédit Agricole, he did not receive any injections. 
Vaughters, who had been with the US Postal cycling team from 1998-1999, 
rode for the French squad from 2000-2002.
"When I was at Crédit Agricole, all the teams were supposed to receive 
25 injections per day... Well, at Crédit, there were zero!" said 
Vaughters according to the article, to which Andreu is reported to have 
replied: "You're saying that no rider received any injection? That's 
crazy..." Vaughters: "That's when I realized that Lance was really 
fooling us when he said that everybody was doing as we did... Believe 
me, as crazy as it may seem, Moreau didn't take anything, his hematocrit 
was 39."
The current TIAA-Cref manager is said to have continued by saying that 
he "could explain how Lance fools everybody. With everything Floyd 
[Landis?] told me, I know the method exactly. [...] It's very 
complicated to get around the controls now but there is no new product 
or miracle thing, it's just a question of money and very precise 
planning. That explains why they all got dropped. They didn't have their 
tanks full, and then, during the rest day, boom! 800 millilitres of red 
blood cells, stored in bags. They took that blood out just after the 
Dauphiné." According to L'Equipe, Vaughters was alluding to stage seven 
of the Tour de France that year, when Lance Armstrong was left without 
teammates in the relatively easy climbs of the Alsace region, one day 
prior to the race's first rest day.
"But how do they store and hide it during all that time?" Andreu then 
asked. "I'm sure it's not in the bus fridges." To which Vaughters 
replied, "It's transported on a motorbike, in frozen cases. Floyd has 
photos of all of that."
Contacted by Cyclingnews about his statements, Vaughters admitted that 
the IM conversation had taken place, but said that everything he had 
said was based on rumours rather than facts. "It was a gossipy 
conversation between two people," he said. "There's nothing in it that I 
could prove in court, just stuff I'd heard." The conversation had been 
printed out by Frankie Andreu's wife and submitted to the SCA 
arbitration, according to Vaughters.
Vaughters said he could not be sure if Floyd Landis really had 
photographs of the alleged doping practices. "I regret saying Floyd said 
anything to me in that IM because it was a friend of Floyd's," he 
continued. "In fact, everything I wrote in that IM was something I heard 
from somewhere else."
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 Subject: Gossip: una delle palle di Lance
Perché? Ne ha un'altra??? ;-)
ciao Rex

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....moreau nuovo paladino della purezza?!?!?... fa abbastanza ridere...  per 
il resto beh nulla di sorprendente... basta leggere l.a. confidential...
=!= 

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