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Ah yes, it makes sense. His hips would have converted the excess blood to that of a slightly different type of antigens and recirculated it throughout his body. I bet no one else has thought of that.

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From: "Buck, Jeffrey A"

> Vino's side of the story (from cyclingnews.com) ---
>
> Vinokourov: 'I never doped'
>
> Vinokourov told the French sports daily L'Equipe in Wednesday's edition
> that he had not cheated. "It's a mistake. I never doped, that's not the
> way I see my profession," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "I think
> it's a mistake in part due to my crash. I have spoken to the team
> doctors who had a hypothesis that there was an enormous amount of blood
> in my thighs, which could have led to my positive test."
>
> Vinokourov claimed to be the victim of a "provocation." "It's been going
> on for months and today they're managing to demolish me," he said. "The
> setting up of our team made a lot of people jealous and now we're paying
> the price. It's a shame to leave the Tour this way, but I don't want to
> waste time in proving my innocence."
>
> Vinokourov did manage a joke about his situation. "I heard that I made a
> transfusion with my father's blood," Vinokourov said. "That's absurd, I
> can tell you that with his blood, I would have tested positive for
> vodka."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Murray
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 12:41 PM
> To: obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Vino's reality:
>
> Erik Long wrote:
> "If he'd been "racing clean" all these years, riding in the environment
> of
> the doped-up super-peloton, he'd have been a mediocre domestique, at
> best."
>
> This statement considerably over estimates the benefits provided by
> doping
> practices. Doped or not doped a good rider will be a good rider and a
> mediocre rider will be a mediocre rider. The doped rider MAY be a bit
> faster than he would have been not doped but the difference is not the
> same
> as the difference between good and mediocre.
>
> Mike Murray
>
>
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