Sorry if its already been said, but what really grates me about KE's response is his "I'm the victim approach"... Fact: 1. he received ozone therapy and blood transfusions (admittedly for a legitimate medical treatment). Unfortunately for him, the WADA code says this = doping. 2. He knows this is dodgy, so applies for a TUE in order to race. 3. TUE is denied, but decides to race anyway. Regardless of whether or not he received any performance benefits, he KNEW the treatments he received were contrary to the WADA code and amounted to doping. He then blatantly ignores this, races, then plays victim when he gets pinged as he "was faced with a life threatening condition"... As others have said, he wasn't being denied his right to life, only his right to race. And if he moans that he raced for a living, I think that his sponsors and the public would have seen much value in him if he had engaged with WADA / SAIDS and come out publicly at the time and said he had received treatments for a life threatening condition, and was therefore not racing until his ABP values were in order to the satisfaction of authorities, to promote doping awareness and clean cycling. He could have taken the high road, but didn't...
