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  • Mixed feelings on this one, given the impassioned defence given by Tom Southam (http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/opinion-why-i-think-jon-tiernan-locke-is-clean) and Brian Smith.

    If he was on the juice, why would he have requested the extra testing while at Endura?

    On the other hand, the bio passport doesn't appear to highlight false positives (that I have heard of). I have also ridden with a chap who trained in the group JTL rode with in Bristol, and he was adamant that JTL was charging up even then (pre-Endura days)

    Southam and Smith won't be the first to have been caught out by a friend or colleague who doped, yet told them otherwise.

    Endura were a Pro Continental team and the UCI can't afford to put in a biological passport program at that level. I imagine Endura's budget was small, and they wouldn't have had the funds to run a fully fledged bio passport for their riders. JTL would have known this so saying he welcomed being tested was easy for him to say, knowing that it wasn't going to happen.

    His sudden rise to prominence was as suspicious as hell, and many noted it at the time.

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