Yes, they actually had six tests in a row from Contador. The Clenbuterol levels were 0 on days 1, 2, 5 and 6. Day 3 had the amount everyone knows about, and day 4 had less than half of that.
Vino was the only other Astana rider tested that day, but he did eat other meat at a different time. There's no word that his samples even went to the same lab as Contador's, though, and even if his Spanish teammates had been tested, they would not have gone there either. Almost all of the Tour de France samples went to the Lausanne Lab. They would not have been able to detect the amounts of Clenbuterol found in Contador, as labs are only required to find forty times that level. If they existed, I guess the B samples could have gone to Cologne to be tested at the higher standard, but who would have a clean test and volunteer to have it looked at by much more exacting equipment?
The UCI arranged to have samples on three days sent to the Cologne Lab for testing for new substances. In real life, they only sent ten samples for the whole Tour.
We know that at least six of Alnerto's went there, because of the Clenbuterol tests on those six days in a row.
Damsgaard was the first one to say that Contador must have transfused on the rest day. He had access to zero data when he announced that to the press, so I have zero respect for him as a human being.
The UCI has made no statement on plasticizers, and as far as I know, they don't exist in the 600 pages sent to the Spanish Federation's Competition Committee. Some people believe what a lab employee allegedly broke his confidentiality agreement to tell the New York Times, but that was an unspecified amount on an unverified test.
The OP laments that more teammates weren't tested that same day. I'm afraid a lot of us think that there was better testing at the Tour than there was. Remember that the main interest of the UCI is to maintain an image of a clean sport - they aren't an aggressive policing force.
There were 198 riders at the start of the race. Not wasting time counting the drop-outs, over 21 race days and 2 rest days, there were around 4500 rider/days where guys could have been tested.
There were 251 urine tests for the whole race. That includes: (these are total tests, not people)
65 standard
144 Standard +EPO (so not everyone was tested even once)
30 IRMS (for steroid profiling)
12 "other"
There were 215 total blood tests during the race, out of those 4500 rider/day opportunities. The tests:
124 were for the Biological Passport only, testing for values to be compared over time, not for doping substances. That leaves 91 blood tests that were checked for anything at all, and none of those were tested for more than one thing
33 samples. not riders, were tested for HGH only
32 samples, not riders, were tested for CERA only
26 samples were only tested for Homologous Blood Transfusions (blood doping but not with your own blood)
10 of the above blood samples, mostly or all Contador, were subjected to the extra scrutiny of the Cologne Lab.
The UCI made no arrangements to have any samples other than Contador's stored for more than three months.
Some riders considered the highest risk of cheating weren't tested at all. If you deduct the stage winners and those in the yellow jersey, the odds of other guys being tested for even one substance during the whole race diminish.
http://www.wada-ama.org/Documents/W...endent-Observer/WADA_IO_Report_TDF2010_EN.pdf
this stuff hurts? The Pistol got caught trying to lose a few pounds....LMAO @ anyone who wants to defend the doper.
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