Originally Posted by DocRay
While it's clear that you are biased against Basso, you've provided an excellent example of Simoni's historical lies.
This dentist's letter was one explanation for the coke in his system, the explanation he gave, on film, in the Giro documentary, The Quest, is that his aunt put the cocaine in some pasteries she made for him. I find this explanation highly unlikely.
Another explanation is that he snorted cocaine.
I actually have very good mail that nose candy was an issue within certain red outfitted, aluminium bike riding Italian teams at that time, so there!