Lainaus:
Vaughters suggested that, according to Kevin Livingston, who rode for Telekom in 2001, that “after 2000″ Ullrich never rode with a haematocrit count of “over 42%” – conceivably his natural level.
Lainaus:
"Did we have a choice? After the Festina scandal in 1998, we had stopped everything at (team) Telekom. No substances, no preparation, nothing!" Rudy Pevenage, who was implicated in the Operacion Puerto blood-doping scandal that broke in 2006, told French sports daily L'Equipe.
"We worked like this until 2001, believing that our rivals were doing the same. But Armstrong and U.S. Postal made us wonder. We were seeing that nothing was true with them. We were seeing that Armstrong had become superhuman," the Belgian added.