Originally Posted by
StumpJumperFSR
You have to look at who the witnesses are...and the context and motive behind their statements. A lot of them were EPO users themselves no who might have something to gain from making such statements.
Like what? Alienating some of the most powerful people who could help them? And what motive did his personal assistant have to discuss his doping in the call that LeMond secretly taped if he wasn't doping?
Say you join a nice gym, and you hire Harry McBeanz as a personal trainer. He is very good at what he does, and has a lot of knowledge as far as training regimens, etc. Now say McBeanz is arrested for selling PEDS to other guys that he was training. Does that mean you should automatically get linked to using PEDS? Absolutely not, because one, you didn't know of his illegal activities, and you weren't using PEDs.
This would be a reasonable argument if Ferrari had such expertise. In fact, he is so committed to the use of EPO and other drugs - openly so, for which I respect him - that it is doubtful if any significant expertise in how a non-doped rider's body responds to training.