Lance Armstrong's test results posted online

Lance Armstrong's anti-doping programme will be directed by Ramsus Damsgaard. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
In the wake of anti-doping expert Don Catlin parting ways with Lance Armstrong, word has come from the Armstrong camp that the seven-time winner of the Tour de France has enlisted Rasmus Damsgaard to oversee his testing program for 2009.
Detailed blood test results from seven International Cycling Union (UCI) and Damsgaard out-of-competition tests are now posted on www.livestrong.com.
"After a thorough review of the efficiency of a separate testing program the decision has been made to transfer the comprehensive program we had planned to do with Don Catlin to Rasmus Damsgaard, a renowned anti-doping expert who runs the Astana team’s internal testing program," said Bill Stapleton, Armstrong's long-time agent and lawyer.
Armstrong will continue to be tested by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), UCI, and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Requests have been made to USADA and WADA to release their results so they can be posted as well.
“Lance is the most tested athlete in sports history and he is certainly the most tested cyclist in the world since his return to the sport last year evidenced by no fewer than 16 unannounced out-of-competition tests since August all over the world. We will continue to do everything we can do to ensure transparency and honesty in his testing results.”
"We have the utmost respect for Don and all he is doing in the fight against doping in sport but we faced a myriad of problems relating to administration, coordination and cost," added Stapleton.
Lance’s current testing results
| Sample Date | Hemoglobin | Hematocrit (%) | OFF-score | Hb z-score | OFF z-score |
| Oct 6, 2008 | 15.5 | 43.7 | |||
| Oct 16, 2008 | 14.3 | 39.3 | 83.3 | ||
| Nov 26, 2008 | 15 | 42.8 | 87.6 | 0.7 | 0.27 |
| Dec 3, 2008 | 14.4 | 41.9 | 89.3 | -0.3 | 0.28 |
| Dec 11, 2008 | 14.3 | 39.4 | 74.9 | -0.3 | -0.91 |
| Dec 18, 2008 | 15.4 | 42.1 | 83.3 | 1.2 | -0.04 |
| Feb 4, 2009 | 15.2 | 45.8 |
Source: www.livestrong.com
User Comments
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KKspeeder
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 6:04 am UTC Flag as inappropriate
I dont really care about OCC blood values. By the way, why is their a 5-week gap between the last 2 listed blood values? It skips over the TDU by over a month. What were Lance's blood value at Leadville? What were his blood values for all his other races?
I want to see Lance's Blood values on the start Line of races.
I want Lance to be total hemoglobin tested the morning of the stages, and then again 30 minute before the start of the stages.
Why wont lance allow someone to monitor his power profiles for free?
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LonSi
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 7:53 am UTC Flag as inappropriate
I want Lance this & I want Lance that, na, na, na..Jesus you sound like a 10 yr old! If you wish to see LA subjected to these tests then accept the fact that all other riders must be subject to the same level of scrutiny.
Do you just not like him? Has he done something to your family? Or can you not accept the fact that maybe he is just naturally damn good. Go away & try again. I understand that some people feel very strongly about LA but god your post is crap & unreasonable - it presumes guilt with out any proof except hearsay.
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jason23
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 8:28 am UTC Flag as inappropriate
LA is the worlds highest profile pin cushion. Give him a break, the vampires are on him 24/7 its a farce.
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antfly
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 11:47 am UTC Flag as inappropriate
He`s probably stopped doping now that he knows he isn`t going to win anyway.
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t0ny
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 12:42 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
Quote: “Lance is the most tested athlete in sports history"
If you still think he is doping and has never been caught then surely every other athelete in the world takes performance enhancing drugs too, but just never gets caught!!
antfly Quote: 'He`s probably stopped doping now that he knows he isn`t going to win anyway.'
He needs to prove nothing to anyone and certainly not to the likes of you. How about concentrating on how he IS winning with LIVESTRONG, what he is doing is fantastic and you comment only serves to show how ignorant you are!
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padonbike
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 1:11 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
Not particularly a Lance fan, but in fairness to the bloke, the highest Hematocrit he records is 45.8. To put that in context the top ten CG finishers of 1998 Giro all recorded between 49.0 and 49.9 if I remember correctly.
Although Hematocrit isn't the only doping criteria, if he doesn't rise much above 45 for the remainder of the season and his results are good, then people are going to have a hard time sticking pins in his voodoo doll.
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whiteboytrash
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 2:43 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
Basso posts all his blood values along with power readings. Its a much more comprehensive than this meaningless set of figures. However I understand Lance is a little short on cash after donating his 1 million from the TDU to the bush fire victims. * cough cough *
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KKspeeder
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 2:51 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
It only takes 45 minutes to transfuse your own blood. I'm not trying to insult your inteligence but there is NO WAY that Lance is clean or ever has been. What a joke!
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Jerome Le Sueur
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 3:00 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
I rather think LA is getting a kick out of this whole dope testing charade by testing negative for banned substances all the time as the quacks (Read doctors) and sceptics are really trying prove that his is not a super human athlete as I presume these people don't like the fact that there are gifted people out there and they are not one ....
Anyway he now does some MTB rides so he must be a good guy besides the good charity work he does.
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KKspeeder
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 3:40 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
Oh, Lance has "talent." His body is clearly a super-responder to drug-therepy. And he picked the right doctor.
www.53x12.com/
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KKspeeder
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 3:49 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
OCC, 4cc blood samples mean NOTHING. Not Jack sh**!
Gee, you think the Puerto blood bags were for Out of competition? I guess 38 rides should have failed their OCC hematocrit controls.
If this F---er was gonna ride "clean" he would release his power profiles from an independent body, and do total hemoglobin testing on raced day. Whats wrong with a total body hemoglobin test 2 hours from the race start Lance? Why has no one answered my questions?
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mountain-nic
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 4:23 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
maybe no one has answered your question becuse we're just cycling fans and not blood doping experts?
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ExeterSimon
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 4:39 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
Jeez...still can't believe what some people want from this guy.
Are people that bothered or are they just jealous as hell that all they can achieve is riding down an A-road each Sunday with their local club?
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TargetP
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 4:55 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
Just a simple but very profound point of law: innocent until proven guilty - nuff said
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MrRex
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 5:03 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
I am not an LA fan, infact, he probably comes 2nd to George Bush for people that I would like to throw smelly tomatos at!
It's good that LA has published these results, however, with his medical team it should be easy to publish the last 12-14 years worth of results. Did anyone take over from Ed Coyle in lab-testing? If so... Lance gave Prof. Coyle the ok to publish data up to 1998 or whatever and a follow up would be great to give him added positive publicity.
It's kinda like God.... I don't believe in such an entity but if he's the almighty, it would be easy for him to prove he exists. Then the world would be a better place (possibly .... although I'd still wanna love the ladeees) Same for LA, I dunno if he's doped or not, but I know a thing or two about cycling and I've no doubt that as LA wanted to be the best, its likely that he had world class support to get him there. His people must have kept records on power/full blood profiles (not just markers for enhanced O2 transport capacity)/histochemical stuff blahhh blahh blahhh. Easy LA... lose the ego and publish all the data... not just a few pieces .... if you do I will send a cheque for $1000 to your charity and thats a promise.
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antfly
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 6:18 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
The problem is there is already plenty of evidence against him but some people prefer to keep their head in the sand.
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mackiej
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 7:00 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
lance continues to prove the doubters wrong. The deluded lance haters are out in force here. Some people need to get over lances exceptional success and accept it as fact. Deal with it.
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Renegade69
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 8:27 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
Wow....All these folks hung up on Lance Armstrong and doping??!!!!
And old KKSPEEDER has it all figured out....FUNNY !!!!!!
It has gotten ridiculous that Lance has to prove he is INNOCENT instead of someone else proving he is GUILTY! I guess the Innocent until proven Guilty only works if you like Lance!
He must really have some great DOC's working on him to be able to pass somewhere in the region of 500 doping test! OPPPP....Here comes the conspiracy theory from KK or others, right....
Give it a break...I guess the chance of someone just being that good is totally ridiculous to many. DAMMMM....He trained for the Tour De France, he should have been good at it!
FUNNY PEOPLE.....Cry and Cry while Lance does his thing!
And KK, why should Lance produce his Power Profiles? Maybe that is something he would like to keep to him self. If they can not catch any Doping after over 500 test, power profiles are not going to do it!
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rawliride31
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 8:45 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
i agree with renegade69- the doctors supplying lance with his dope must be pretty damn amazing if nothing has been found!!! some people really need to get a life!!!
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StefanP
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 9:01 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
Innocent 'til proven guilty.
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jnr_seahorse
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 9:02 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
KK Speeder presents his statements as facts and seems to assume it is obvious Lance is doping. Where exactly is the evidence for these totally ridiculous and ignorant statements???
After all these years and hundreds of tests surely I can see plenty of evidence to say that Lance is obviously clean.
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martinwitnam
Posted Thu 12 Feb, 11:04 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
I was looking at the BBC site and it seems that Rafa Nadal is complaining about the fact that he is going to have to tell the authorities where he is for a single hour of every day. What a whinging spaniard!
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KKspeeder
Posted Fri 13 Feb, 12:39 am UTC Flag as inappropriate
The number of tests does not matter. The top riders will not be tested 30 minutes from the race start when they blood dope with their own blood.
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LonSi
Posted Fri 13 Feb, 12:59 am UTC Flag as inappropriate
KK you seem to know an awful lot about blood-doping, something you want to tell us??
@Antfly if there is so much "evidence" how come he's allowed to ride? Your "evidence" is circumstantial at best.
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antfly
Posted Fri 13 Feb, 1:18 am UTC Flag as inappropriate
I still think he`s a great cyclist just not a saint,all the others were at it too.Not everyone ges caught.
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Travis_M
Posted Fri 13 Feb, 3:15 am UTC Flag as inappropriate
How can he cheat so well, when the 16 or so out of competition tests he had, suddenly appeared with no warning? He isn't cheating, give the guy a break. He's doing amazing work for Charity, and bringing excellent Sponsorship to a sport which has taken a rough ride of it recently.
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KKspeeder
Posted Fri 13 Feb, 3:47 am UTC Flag as inappropriate
The cycling fans need to push for wattage profile monitoring on all the top riders, and total body hemoglonin testing before and after stages. The UCI knows all about the "Lance effect." It boosts ratings, the exposure the sport gets, and the commercial intake of the sport.
It all comes down to MORE MONEY FOR THE SPORT. Lance=$$$$
Money drives human desire.
The difference blood doping makes in good responders Is staggering actually. A freaky talented clean rider does not stand a F-ing chance in heck against a mediocre-talent who is blood doped and on O2 transports like HemAssist that Grand Tour riders were using in 2001. This was all found in Police Drug raids.
You can see the blood refills based on the change in sustainable wattage. Its such a staggering difference. Somebody might go from 350-420 watts or even more than that. This will happen fully in the amount of time it takes to transfuse the packed red cells. 45 minutes or less with a good medical support. No clean rider on earth would last over 15 minutes with a top rider who is jacked on a final climb in the Tour de France.
He is not using many PEDs on the banned list, if any. Mostly its stuff not known or even banned yet. Human Growth Hormone is still undetectable, and some people respond very well to it. Others not so much at all. Doping is not fair in those regards. Its not fair at all to have all the top dogs doping.
Young athletes will continue to die because they are not blood doping properly, or they go to sleep with a 60% hematocrit because they forgot to drain out the extra blood.... Gene doping is here and it will only get more advanced and eventually it will be absolutely wicked.
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rockmount
Posted Fri 13 Feb, 12:22 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
Yaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnn
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pbracing
Posted Fri 13 Feb, 12:31 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
I think kkspeeder is really Jan Ulrich. Everywhere there's a LA article he's venting big time. Ha Ha. Are you Lances' supplier as you're so convinced he's always been a doper.
Say you're right, and eveyone else has always been doping, he still kicked their backsides on the tour. And that makes him no more a liar than anyone else. So what's the big deal?
I think rockmount said it best.
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padonbike
Posted Fri 13 Feb, 1:47 pm UTC Flag as inappropriate
KK Speeder
"It only takes 45 minutes to transfuse your own blood. I'm not trying to insult your inteligence but there is NO WAY that Lance is clean or ever has been. What a joke!"
How come Pantani got busted at Madonna di Campiglio?









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