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How come Rabobank’s Menchov wasn’t found out then? I thought their entire team was doped up to the gills?
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He was, but later in his career, once the UCI had built up enough of a case against him.
In the early years of the biological passport, the UCI were very cautious in bringing cases, preferring to use targeted testing to catch out those they suspected of doping. Most of the early cases brought using passport data were small fry riders, partly because the UCI were worried that if they went for a big name they'd challenge them through the arbitration system and maybe even raise a civil case.
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andyp
Rubbish troll is rubbish.
That was the first year of the biological passport, and many of those who were still doping were busted through targeted testing at the Tour, I.e. Kohl and Beltran. That targeting was based on intelligence gathered by the bio passport.
As he did throughout his career, Evans passed every test he was subjected to.