Saugy gave the key to beating EPO?

[mtb Dad]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lau...armstrong-key-to-beating-epo-test-says-tygart

So is this evidence more of Saugy's corruption, or UCI's coercion (they were paying for the testing then i guess)? Endorsement from the Swiss cycling organization seems like faint praise.

 

[sniper]

Phat will tuck this one away by either staying silent or stressing it didn't happen under his watch.

 

[sniper]

but it seems the kind of circumstantial evidence that Kimmage will be able to exploit if he's going forward with his case against P&H. (Is he?)

 

[DirtyWorks]

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lau...armstrong-key-to-beating-epo-test-says-tygart

So is this evidence more of Saugy's corruption, or UCI's coercion (they were paying for the testing then i guess)? Endorsement from the Swiss cycling organization seems like faint praise.

Either the UCI or the event organizer pays for dope testing depending on the event and those arrangements tend to be secret. What tests are run is also secret. Saugy himself is a bit player. Really. A paying customer wants Saugy to attend a meeting? No problem.

The fact that the sports federation is telling the lab to explain to an athlete how to beat the EPO test should be Watergate-scale corruption suitable to end the UCI. But it won't because that's about average for the more visible IOC sports.

A little pet peeve of mine is this isn't really new. Anyone except the worst of the deniers figured out when "there was a meeting at the UCI" with Saugy and Wonderboy, that it was about how to beat the test. It's just that the right person is finally saying it. I'm glad it's getting a larger audience, but this is old material.

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

The fact that the sports federation is telling the lab to explain to an athlete how to beat the EPO test should be Watergate-scale corruption suitable to end the UCI. But it won't because that's about average for the more visible IOC sports.

A little pet peeve of mine is this isn't really new. Anyone except the worst of the deniers figured out when "there was a meeting at the UCI" with Saugy and Wonderboy, that it was about how to beat the test. It's just that the right person is finally saying it. I'm glad it's getting a larger audience, but this is old material.

Hopefully UCIgate will bring needed change, wether it is Change Cycling Now or something like that. Wow. That is the first I heard the content of the meeting was about how to beat the test.

 

[Merckx index]

Keep in mind that after the charging letter came out, it was reported that Saugy said he would never testify that the TdS sample was positive. He was adamant that it was a borderline result, and that according to the standards of the time it could not be judged positive. This is consistent with Tygart’s saying Saugy said the sample “indicated” positive.

Also, while the “keys to the EPO test” quote is shocking, did Saugy actually say so in so many words, or did he just “nod his head”? A head movement is something someone could easily deny, or claim was misinterpreted. Saugy could also argue that all he did at the meeting was reassure LA that he would not have to worry about false positives, that he explained to him how the test distinguished natural from synthetic positives.

In any case, it’s unlikely that Saugy could have told LA anything that was not already in the public domain. There was some discussion of this on another thread here, and some were arguing that LA took information from this meeting to Ferrari, who used it to design a way to beat the test. I don’t buy that. By that time, 2002, the EPO test had already been published, and Ferrari would have been thoroughly familiar with it, knowing far more details about it than UCI could have communicated to a non-scientist like LA. Possibly Saugy could have been more specific about how the different isoforms are judged than was indicated in the published paper, but that information really wouldn't help someone beat the test. Ferrari's main insight was in realizing that an IV injection would be eliminated from the body fast enough to beat most tests, simply because there wouldn't be enough EPO present. I don't see how anything Saugy could have told LA/JB would have helped Ferrari come to this insight. Though this point was actually made in a paper published twenty years earlier, apparently no one at UCI or WADA was aware of it at that time, as they all later expressed surprise that Ferrari had come up with it.

So unless Saugy suddenly reverses his position, and confirms everything Tygart said or implied, I think much more than this statement would be needed to build a case against UCI. If there is still communication going on between LA and USADA (?), Tygart could have been sending a message to him: if you want your ban reduced, tell us exactly what happened at this meeting.

 

[Benotti69]

Keep in mind that after the charging letter came out, it was reported that Saugy said he would never testify that the TdS sample was positive. He was adamant that it was a borderline result, and that according to the standards of the time it could not be judged positive. This is consistent with Tygart’s saying Saugy said the sample “indicated” positive.

Also, while the “keys to the EPO test” quote is shocking, did Saugy actually say so in so many words, or did he just “nod his head”? A head movement is something someone could easily deny, or claim was misinterpreted. Saugy could also argue that all he did at the meeting was reassure LA that he would not have to worry about false positives, that he explained to him how the test distinguished natural from synthetic positives.

In any case, it’s unlikely that Saugy could have told LA anything that was not already in the public domain. There was some discussion of this on another thread here, and some were arguing that LA took information from this meeting to Ferrari, who used it to design a way to beat the test. I don’t buy that. By that time, 2002, the EPO test had already been published, and Ferrari would have been thoroughly familiar with it, knowing far more details about it than UCI could have communicated to a non-scientist like LA. Possibly Saugy could have been more specific about how the different isoforms are judged than was indicated in the published paper, but that information really wouldn't help someone beat the test. Ferrari's main insight was in realizing that an IV injection would be eliminated from the body fast enough to beat most tests, simply because there wouldn't be enough EPO present. I don't see how anything Saugy could have told LA/JB would have helped Ferrari come to this insight. Though this point was actually made in a paper published twenty years earlier, apparently no one at UCI or WADA was aware of it at that time, as they all later expressed surprise that Ferrari had come up with it.

So unless Saugy suddenly reverses his position, and confirms everything Tygart said or implied, I think much more than this statement would be needed to build a case against UCI. If there is still communication going on between LA and USADA (?), Tygart could have been sending a message to him: if you want your ban reduced, tell us exactly what happened at this meeting.

I guess Tygart would not release this info without some kind of proof!

I doubt the Swiss Police investigation will get far as soon as they start to dig into UCI they find it leads to the cesspit of IOC where they will fond that they probably do not want to open that and expose Swizterland again as the white collar corrupt capital.

 

[SundayRider]

Fully agree Benotti.

 

[dolophonic]

Merckx Index .. sounds about right..

 

[thehog]

Keep in mind that after the charging letter came out, it was reported that Saugy said he would never testify that the TdS sample was positive. He was adamant that it was a borderline result, and that according to the standards of the time it could not be judged positive. This is consistent with Tygart’s saying Saugy said the sample “indicated” positive.

Also, while the “keys to the EPO test” quote is shocking, did Saugy actually say so in so many words, or did he just “nod his head”? A head movement is something someone could easily deny, or claim was misinterpreted. Saugy could also argue that all he did at the meeting was reassure LA that he would not have to worry about false positives, that he explained to him how the test distinguished natural from synthetic positives.

In any case, it’s unlikely that Saugy could have told LA anything that was not already in the public domain. There was some discussion of this on another thread here, and some were arguing that LA took information from this meeting to Ferrari, who used it to design a way to beat the test. I don’t buy that. By that time, 2002, the EPO test had already been published, and Ferrari would have been thoroughly familiar with it, knowing far more details about it than UCI could have communicated to a non-scientist like LA. Possibly Saugy could have been more specific about how the different isoforms are judged than was indicated in the published paper, but that information really wouldn't help someone beat the test. Ferrari's main insight was in realizing that an IV injection would be eliminated from the body fast enough to beat most tests, simply because there wouldn't be enough EPO present. I don't see how anything Saugy could have told LA/JB would have helped Ferrari come to this insight. Though this point was actually made in a paper published twenty years earlier, apparently no one at UCI or WADA was aware of it at that time, as they all later expressed surprise that Ferrari had come up with it.

So unless Saugy suddenly reverses his position, and confirms everything Tygart said or implied, I think much more than this statement would be needed to build a case against UCI. If there is still communication going on between LA and USADA (?), Tygart could have been sending a message to him: if you want your ban reduced, tell us exactly what happened at this meeting.

Someone lying and he just changed his mind again.

Saugy on Friday confirmed that the UCI had asked him to meet the pair but added: “In the context I remain persuaded that it was the thing to do. It was neither an error nor naivety as some people have written.”

http://velonews.competitor.com/2013...nies-it-helped-armstrong-beat-epo-test_271004

 

[Benotti69]

In what 'context' would it be fine to meet an athlete to discuss anti doping tests?

Saugy gave them (Bruyneel/Armstrong) the information they needed to beat the testing and I bet we can all guess what that is from Armstrongs history, his needing 20mins for a shower before taking a pee in a cup etc.....

 

[hfer07]

The way I interpret this incident is that LA & Bruyneel did get from Saugy "key" information about the EPO testing & some recommendations on "not to rely to its use at all"-perhaps micro dosing it-since the +sample during the ToS was an indication that testing was indeed improving & certainly they needed to seek alternative "blood boosters".....

so IAW- Travis Tygart is saying the truth

 

[The fridge in the blue trees]

Why not just read what Saugy had to say in May 2011?

http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/sport/radsport/eine-bittere-ironie-1.10716472

He has been consistent in what he's saying all the way.

 

[Cloxxki]

Were there any changes with regards threshold levels to be regarded pos/neg?
If he told them what he'd flag as borderline, and thus "clean"...

Lance may have bought that machine after all. For himself...

 

[Race Radio]

Why not just read what Saugy had to say in May 2011?

http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/sport/radsport/eine-bittere-ironie-1.10716472

He has been consistent in what he's saying all the way.

Nope.

He told the Feds something completely different, then got a visit from the UCI and changed his story

 

[Fearless Greg Lemond]

So, what is the lesson in this? Very simple, wonderPharmstrong and his matey Johan learned they were allowed to dope with EPO till 80/85[?]% synthetic isoforms. 'Thanks doc Saugy!' is what they yelled when they left the lab I guess.

Really, like things are different by now.

 

[Race Radio]

“The meeting with Lance Armstrong took place, I have never made a secret of that,” Saugy said Friday.

Nonsense. He kept it secret for 10 years until the Feds dragged it out of him

 

[The fridge in the blue trees]

Nope.

He told the Feds something completely different, then got a visit from the UCI and changed his story

So what did he tell them?
And, where is the affidavit?

 

[Race Radio]

So what did he tell them?
And, where is the affidavit?

He told them the UCI called him in 2001 and told him to drop it as it was "Going Nowhere"

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

There are already too many Armstrong threads, and this topic is not only covered elsewhere, but has been discussed before.

If you wish to pick it up, do so in one of the other treads.