I am not an AC fan but I do not think I could have trusted Lance, Johan, Popo and Levi to back me 100%.
I can imagine he took off on his own, because he felt the team was much more loyal to Lance.
What do you think?
My line of thinking- how many of the old Postal Service team have been caught/suspected? So if Garmin wanted to go for a "clean" no doping policy, would they choose VdV unless they were sure he was beyond all that?