The UCI covered the positive of Lance Armstrong in the year 1999
Le Monde has brought more light on the positive of Armstrong in the 1999 Tour, an episode that was already known but to which is added a fundamental nuance: the UCI helped to cover it.
Le Monde has shed more light on Lance Armstrong's positive doping test in the 1999 Tour de France , an episode that was already known but to which a fundamental nuance is added: the International Cycling Union helped to cover it up.
In the first stage of 1999, on July 4th between Montaigu and Challans, Armstrong, wearing bib number 181, underwent a doping control, according to documentation provided by Le Monde. The sample control number, to ensure anonymity, was 157372. In the UCI doping control report, signed by Armstrong himself and his director Johan Bruyne , under the section "medications being taken," they noted " none " (the report is reproduced above).
This formalism is mandatory according to the regulations of the UCI to discern if a hypothetical positive is caused by a medication for which the runner has a medical prescription due to some ailment, chronic illness, allergy ...
On July 20, the French evening paper announced that Armstrong had tested positive for a corticosteroid. And on the 21st, the UCI rushed to publish a statement according to which the Texan "presented a medical prescription" without specifying its date. But the UCI's own doping control report from the 4th did not acknowledge this treatment.
The doctor of the US Postal at that time was the Spanish Luis García del Moral, and Emma O'Reilly, Armstrong masseuse, already denounced, and corroborated in the report of the USADA, how the latter elaborated to fix it "a justification of therapeutic use" .
"What about the cortisone and the false date of the prescription? Is it true?" Oprah Winfrey asked Armstrong on Thursday: "Yes." What adds the information of Le Monde is that the UCI covered that positive with the false test of that recipe without date. Although Armstrong denied his connivance with the UCI of Hein Vergruggen and Pat McQuaid, the evidence is different.
Source: ciclismo.as.com
Photo: AFP: Patrick Kovarik
