Originally Posted by Keith99
A bit of both. The drug testing issue has an interesting historical spin. Merckx was disqualified in the 1969 Giro because of a drug test that he claims to this day was the result of his samples being tampered with. This was well into the Giro and he was leading. Later that year he destroyed everyone in the TDF, which he was allowed to enter because of irregularities in the Giro drug test.
So there were historical reasons to thing tampering could happen. But I find it hard to believe that Gregs own team as the team were out to get him. (That however does not eleminate the chance that one person might).
Real or perceved, Greg had to win
thinking his team was not 100% behind him. Wonder if Lance could have done the same? For the sake of argument say Mig and several trusty domestiqes are hired to ride for Postal in 99 to "help" Lance. Would have been an intresting tour.