Originally Posted by
Trevor98
Tekhna, do you realize what happens when a person gets "the wrong bloodbag"? They generally don't get away with just testing positive- they often get a stay in the hospital and possibly die. You see when a person with A type blood gets B type blood the body attacks the transfused blood and creates cellular problems. There is also a problem with getting the wrong Rh (+/-).
Passing off mixing up bloodbags as just a simple mistake is rather dishonest. There are several different blood/Rh types and some of those just don't mix. Anyone messing around with blood transfusions is really careful about screwing that up or they die soon. Ever notice how hospitals are rather careful about typing and cross-typing blood before transfusions?
I understand the biology of it. What I meant by that was it seems probable that what happened was between stages 16 and 17 Floyd injected his own packed cells, not realizing they still had leftover testosterone in them. Likely from pre-season, when they would have been using testosterone. Testosterone doesn't make any sense during a race, particularly knowing how he was going to be subjected to such rigorous testing. It seems more likely that he just got a bag of his own, tainted blood. But they screwed the pooch on this one, so how the hell are we ever going know?