I've been trying to make sense of what this point about Phillip Maire is. Like, do people think because he met Froome and Porte, that must mean he was running drugs to them?
I just don't know anything about him, other than 1) he owns a bike shop near Monaco and likes to take pictures with famous riders/meet pro riders, and 2) he made good pals enough with USPS folks that they hired him to follow them with drugs.
From the context of the Reasoned Decision/Tyler's book, it seemed to me like Maire was hired to do this because he was pals with some dudes on the team, not because he was known for his EPO-couriering talents in the peloton. So, twelve years later or whatever, it seems like making anything of his meeting Froome and Porte more than 'he met Froome and Porte because they were with Sean Yates and they were old pals' would be a pretty big leap. Going to him for doping in 2012 seems to make much less sense than, say, going to Ferrari.
But, is that what is being said here, that the EPO-couriering had to be more than a one-off, and that Maire is strongly connected with doping in the peloton?