Does the biological-passport take into account that Hb concentration should have dropped by 10% (?) by the third week of a GT so that having unchanged values is viewed as a 10% increase in Hb when calculating off-score and what not?
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Tyler'sTwin said:I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that the correct answer here is "no".
Any idea what Lance's TdF -09 off-score "should" have been?
Barrus said:Actually, if you read between the lines it is clear that LA, or some other high profile rider was caugth qith the bio passport, probably due to a GT, but that no sanction was imposed on him, due to pressure put on the commission by the UCI. At the moment I do not have a link, but did not one of the committee's members came out with something like that, earlier this year?