brownbobby said:King Boonen said:Certainly a possibility too.LaFlorecita said:Not sure if it has already been posted. But thought Jörg Jacksche's tweet was interesting. "Never forget the bloodbag leftovers in your calculations". Interesting view IMO.
Hmmm....but if he was reinfusing a bloodbag, surely said bloodbag would have been withdrawn at a time when he was far out from any competitive event or heavy training blocks. So, presuming the salbutamol is being used for the short term and immediate boosts it (highly debatably) brings, would seem unlikely that he'd have such high levels in his system at the time of withdrawing the bloodbag for storage?
If you're going to draw blood you do it when you are least likely to trip the passport or get caught doing it. This is usually when training at altitude. Training at altitude will likely induce asthma and require an inhaler if you suffer from it. It is not necessary that all the salbutamol comes from the bag, just enough to trip the detection. Read the tweet LaFlo quoted carefully. It is certainly a possibility.