Doping

excuse my naiveté, but is this article making insinuations beyond the low result? Could he have been just tired? I quite liked Roland in the last two tours.

"A low level of cortisol could be indicative of corticoid use or of fatigue."

But their rules are that the rider should be rested. Of course, he's not going to rest if he's not tired and is in fact feeling great because he's using cortisone..