Yes! And didn't the Doc himself contradict what Betsy A. (& evidently this Oakley rep too, depending upon to whom she speaking & in what year) said they were even talking about at all?
All of which comports with somebody else's point upthread that it would be very strange for a medical professional to quiz a patient on their history with illegal substances with a crowd of all these non-related people in the room listening in.
Even before the HIPPA regs came into effect, it would have been professionally unethical to do that, not to mention a waste of time, since any answer a patient might give under those circumstances is not guaranteed to be fully truthful.
Tens of thousands? TENS OF EFFING THOUSANDS?
Good God almighty, LeMonde is a very, very, very sick man.
Who knows if LA doped, but it's OVER dammit. Despite extensive testing, he was never caught during competition, his career is now over, and this is what the Feds are spending tax money on to prosecute?
The American people haven't been able to get the DOJ to even look at prosecuting ongoing voter fraud, rampant voter intimidation & blatant suppression of civil rights right under their collective noses, but boy howdy Uncle Sam is going to drain the US Treasury proving what a sports promotion organization tried obsessively for a decade to prove but somehow never could - a freaking FRENCH sports promotion company, at that.
It's a bicycle race, for heavens sake, & the alleged doping they're investigating, if it occurred at all, occurred a decade ago & a continent away.
Our tax dollars at work, people. Uneffenbelievable.