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peter_v
Unfortunately, I really don't think it's possible to retrospectively 'prove' your liver was inexplicably malfunctioning to a degree that it never has previously throughout your long career history of using an inhaler.
You can't replicate a tour in the lab, and I don't think the methodology or verification will ever be accepted by the UCI or WADA as it's not their lab or doctors doing it. For those reasons I think the training miles are just a theatre whilst Sky sees if the other side will, in the face of pressure from race organisers and fans outraged by the prospect of yet more empty podium spaces, blink first and let them off with a slap on the wrist...
But you never know. Maybe there's a phantom twin or even an actual physiological explanation that isn't just retrospectively dreamed up and shoehorned into a special lab session to suit the narrative... personally I think the simplest explanation will be the real one.