wrote:

This is why it is so preponderous that the top riders are going off and
doping "independently" when all of the teams have their own medical
staffs supposedly monitoring their "health". CSC stated that Basso's
contract forbade him from consulting outside medical assistance for his
training. Either CSC's medical staff sits on their asses all year, or
they are complicit.

In a very bizarre coincidence, I spoke to one of the team's doctors
today. I learned that they would not have had any obvious indication
that Basso was doping.

Jeff