MarkvW said:
Saugy apparently tells different stories at different times to different people.
Saugy is clearly the central figure and key in all of this. He says one thing to the FBI, which I’m quite sure was the truth, and another to the press. Then there is this:
The AP has learned that on three occasions, Saugy told authorities about the Armstrong tests and had agreed to turn over the results to anti-doping officials. But he never produced them, which prompted the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to send him a letter in April asking for the evidence.
This statement seems to assume that Saugy knew the samples were LA’s. If not back in 2001/2002, at least now. But why would he tell authorities about them, then refuse to turn them over? Even if he actually were covering up, why tell anyone about these tests in the first place? On the one hand, he is portrayed as someone who spotted a problem, on the other, as someone who tried to hide that problem.
There is also this:
David Howman, director general of the Montreal-based World Anti-Doping Agency, confirmed to the AP that Saugy had talked to him about suspicious results from the 2001 Tour de Suisse and an ensuing meeting set up by UCI that included people Saugy "didn't anticipate" would be there.
I assume Howman means Saugy talked to him about these results last year. Howman would not have been director or AFAIK someone to be notified back in 2001/2002. So Howman goes on 60m and says a meeting with UCI would be “inappropriate”, but never mentions that he knew about these suspicious results and had discussed them with Saugy and the UCI. He seems to have had first hand knowledge about the situation that he never let on about to 60m. Nothing at all illegal about that, of course, but I find it strange. Maybe Howman testified to the FBI, too, or the GJ, and was advised to keep quiet, but surely he could have at least confirmed that he knew about these samples.
And who were the “unanticipated” people? I’m guessing they were officials connected with the Novitzky investigation. Saugy didn’t expect this? Why not? Why would he suddenly, in 2010, start telling people about suspicious samples from back in 2001/2002, if not prompted by the investigation? Why dredge all this up now?
We can assume he started getting worried about the legal implications of these samples, but his behavior is still strange. Maybe he was advised by a lawyer to come clean with these samples, but then held off for some other reason? Strange, strange, strange.