This is sad. I really like Floyd and his approach to cycling. I was hoping that maybe there was some explanation for this - too bad the B sample doesn't reside with a completely different lab. How would you know whether the French spiked the sample or not?
But I agree, if there wasn't tampering involved, then it sseems to suggest they all dope. Do you think it is possible that maybe what happened before stage17 was that he got a blood transfusion of his own cells? and that maybe the blood hadn't been completely "scrubbed" of whatever he was taking at the time?