No certified lab? No certified results...wtf!

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Paul Hanlin Jr.<speedsk8fan@...> wrote:
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> We have her side from Agence-France Presse:
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iZk32lny_yJzux9ZkLvifjIxXEHA
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> Paging Robert L. Ripley - believe this, or not.
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> German speedskate star Claudia Pechstein on Friday hotly proclaimed
> her innocence after the International Skating Union handed her a
> two-year ban for blood doping which would force her to miss next year's
> Winter Games in Vancouver.
> The blood profile of the multiple
> Olympic and world champion showed abnormal variations in tests, the ISU
> found following a two-day hearing.
> The variations showed up in
> particular following the World Allround Championships in February and
> Pechstein, 37, will now be banned until February 9, 2011 - but through
> her lawyer she said she will appeal against the suspension to the Court
> of Arbitration for Sport."Pechstein rejects the accusation of
> blood doping," her lawyer, Marius Breucker, said in a joint statement
> with German Speedskating Federation chairman Gerd Heinze.
> "She
> has been tested intensively in competition and in training these past
> years without any doping substance being found," the statement added.
> "During
> the procedure before the ISU experts judged the data unreliable owing
> to patent errors" and, during the tests, "only the reticulocyte
> (immature red blood cells) levels were abnormally high. The other blood
> parametres, such as haemoglobin and the hematocritic levels were
> normal," the statement maintained.
> "Illness or blood
> abnormalities are possible explanations for an abnormally high
> reticulocyte reading. Pechstein proposes to submit herself to tests for
> these possible anomalies."Breucker and Heinze added she would
> also agree to "several weeks of surveillance with blood and EPO testing
> in order to prove her innocence."
> And the statement concluded:
> "This is as far as we are aware the first time there has been a
> suspension founded on indirect proof, that of a sole blood value. No
> banned substance has been found."
> Paul
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