my username is flish said:Martin Earley was on the 91 PDM tour team that pulled out with 9 very sick riders, the story that came out in the late 90s being that it was due to incorrectly stored EPO. So I would lump him in with Kelly and the rest of that happy bunch.
IMO funny results from 90-94 (either good results from mediocre riders or poor results from quality riders) have less to do with what they were taking (i.e. I think they were nearly all taking EPO by 94) and a lot more to do with HOW they were taking it. The guys who had the doctors managing their usage got better results from the same quantity of EPO than the guys who pumped it in but didn't understand how to really grow the cells and combine that with their training plan. Eventually the science spread out and established methods of how to use EPO became standard.
I think you could probably do a EPO doping family tree. It would probably have Gewiss, Once and PDM pretty much at the top. Prizes for who would be the dopefather at the top.