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  • The comment a few up about Lemond being clean. Is that on the basis that using drungs that are subsequently banned is clean? Colin Sturgess (team mate at ADR the year he won) has frequently implied that he was one of the earliest users of EPO.

    Where are you getting your info from? Other bike forums, like this..

    Originally Posted by Gregers
    On another forum an ex UK pro, Colin Sturgess- who rode with Greg towards the end of the latter's career (Lim would certainly recall him, even if he may not be well known to most of you)-has hinted fairly strongly a number of times that Greg was somewhat less than squeaky clean.
    It is hard to judge whether he is suggesting that his former team mate went the whole super juicing route of Pharmstrong et al, (FWO I think on balance that he probably is) but he certainly links him to a banned product called Survector.
    When challenged about his 'innuendo' -shock, there are House type characters on all forums-he defends himself by stating that his comments are based on his knowledge and experience as a former pro, rather than mere anecdote.
    Quite interesting, from an insider.
    Yes, but for a start he's not using his real name so clearly doesn't want to be on the record about any of this. Secondly, the only product he's mentioned in connection with Lemond wasn't on the banned list until 1992. Thirdly, he's only confessed to using 'grey-area' substances himself, which I took to mean things that you might consider immoral but not outside the laws of the sport.

    Survector, by the way, is a short-acting upper. It's a prescription medication for depression and is very rarely used medically nowadays. As I said, it was placed on the UCI banned list in 1992.

    He posts under the name of another prescription medication, used for treating patients with severely low phosphate levels, such as those undergoing kidney dialysis. This is seemingly not a banned substance, and has been openly used by at least one Italian football club.

    http://www.cyclingforums.com/t/399195/interesting-lemond-letter-re-20-year-itt-record/90

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