[creekster]

Back to the original thread topic: I read today that Vino tested positive after both of his stage wins, both times for homologous doping. This menas that either the test is bad (this is a french lab, after all) or that we already have a confirmation of sorts that he did, in fact, transfuse someone else's blood. Of course, this does make you wonder why he cracked so badly afdter the ITT, but my guess (and it is only a guess) is that even with more blood cells, you still need some recovery time for muscles after such an extraoridnary effort.