Re: Iban Mayo B-sample is negative

On Oct 23, 7:29 am, Jim Feeley <jfee...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Huh. I read that the the Gent lab's B-sample results were "confirmed"
by an Australian lab. Any news/details on that front? Did the Oz lab
confirm that the sample could not be read correctly or...?

Answering my own question...this story has more details:

http://www.velonews.com/race/int/articles/13559.0.html

"The second sample is not negative," UCI anti-doping coordinator Anne
Gripper told AFP at Tuesday's doping summit in Paris. "The analysis of
it has not yet finished."
....

There were some reports that labs botched the test, but Gripper
insisted that testing methods between labs in France, where the "A"
sample was tested, and follow-up tests in Belgium are not the same.
Officials now want a second sample to be re-tested at the Chatenay-
Malabry lab in France.

She said it would be another "five or six weeks" before the second
round of tests is completed. Even if the follow-up tests are negative,
the UCI said it might consider an appeal to the Court of Arbitration
for Sport.

[there's more in the story linked above]

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So who decided to send the B sample to Gent? And why re test in France
rather than Belgium?

Jim

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