Originally Posted by
rogwilco
Basso, Ullrich and Hamilton were never caught by the UCI, that was during Operacion Puerto which the UCI was at best tangentially involved in. Ricco was caught by WADA testing. Rasmussen, ok, but that was a technicality, and there also were other agencies involved. David Millar was caught by the French police, not any testing.
I'll give you Landis, but maybe that was the wake-up call to the UCI to not shake things up anymore...
eta: Vino too I guess, although he never really was a tier1 rider.
In 2004 the UCI and the IOC caught Hamilton he was later tied into Operacion Puerto, but he was already in suspension by the time Operacion puerto came out.