Apparently he even turned up positive for EPO at this year's tour. But concerns over the validity of the test prevented any action.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Rasmussen-returned-nonnegative-EPO-test/2007/09/28/1190486568303.html

Apparently he even turned up positive for EPO at this year's tour. But concerns over the validity of the test prevented any action.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Rasmussen-returned-nonnegative-EPO-test/2007/09/28/1190486568303.html


http://eurosport.yahoo.com/28092007/58/tour-de-france-rasmussen-doping-scandal-continues.html

"Traces of Dynepo, a biosimilar EPO, were found in Rasmussen's urine,"

This news report is exactly the reason Rabobank pulled him from the TdF. I bet they were scared to death that just like last year, Rasmussen would ride into Paris as the winner and then in the weeks following the race, some huge revelation would explode. This is news but would obviously be very different had he remained in the race and won.