Santi Perez, Tyler's teammate who finished 2nd in the Vuelta, has tested positive for a blood transfusion. The B sample testing has also been confirmed postive.

The article released today by www.todocicismo.com is in Spanish but here it is anyhow:

http://www.todociclismo.com/noticia.asp?id=21476

But he is such a nice guy. :rolleyes:

http://www.todociclismo.com/noticia.asp?id=21476[/QUOTE]

My Spanish is very weak, but I will attempt to translate:

"Santiago Perez may have tested positive for transfusion, according to Marca"

The Asturian Santiago Perez, second place in the recent Vuelta, may have tested positive, according to an article today in the newspaper Marca.The possible positive of Santiago Perez may have occurred during a random blood test, however it is not sure if that test occured during the Vuelta.

In the analysis, always according to Marca, it would have shown abnormal occurences in his blood, however there is no evidence presently to the question of whether it is a homologous (blood of another person) or autologous (blood of the same athlete) transfusion. That which seems sure from the Madrid printing press is that a counteranalsysis was solicited by another lab which also arrived at the same conclusion.

This news of Santiago Perez is not the first evidence of abnormal blood occurences on Team Phonak; news is also in the air of teammate Tyler Hamilton's positive test for homologous transfusion which uses blood of another person who has the same blood type to improve absorption of oxygen in the person's muslces.

Hmmm.... Ready to contribute?

http://www.believetyler.org/

Santi Perez, Tyler's teammate who finished 2nd in the Vuelta, has tested positive for a blood transfusion. The B sample testing has also been confirmed postive.

The article released today by www.todocicismo.com is in Spanish but here it is anyhow:

http://www.todociclismo.com/noticia.asp?id=21476

unless they catch DOZENS (as in, several dozen) of riders with the new test (and thereby implying a high false-positive rate), they both look guilty. I suppose I can hope that neither of them are (Santi seems to be a nice guy, too), but this does make 3 people on Phonak. there might be something systematic going on.