no, no, this is why he won’t fail the drug test: once upon a time he was give EPO legally, and it’s always there to mask future illicit injections! My mom confirms.
???That's the first time I've heard this.
Are you saying that exogenic EPO remains detectable even after years-ago use (LA's post chemo treatments) so a positive blood or urine test wouldn't provide evidence of more recent exogenic EPO? Or are you saying that one dose forever masks more recent use & so it just doesn't show up in the blood or urine testing?
If it's the former, why do they continue to test him then if his legal EPO (which would have had to have been one of the first-gen synthetic EPO's I guess) is still present.
And if it's the latter, if another cyclist who'd been caught using it (David Millar, say) and has started cycling again after a suspension, wouldn't their previous usage also mask current usage? In other words, if all it takes is previous usage to mask current usage, then Floyd Landis could pass a test now?
Or (& this far-out possibility just came to me, so please bear with my ignorance) if he was given non-synthetic allogeneic hematopoietic cells as a cancer patient, are you saying he's essentially a chimera now, so he always has genetically different cells that show up in testing? You're suggesting he's continuing to use allogenic EPO to boost RBC instead of synthetic like all the other riders?
In which case, we're back to why do they even bother to test him for EPO! I'm confused.