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You fundamentally misunderstand the nature of EPO. You can take EPO and not trigger a test failure. EPO produces red-blood cells as long as these do not exceed 50% then you won't fail a test. Armstrong can run at 49.9 and he won't fail the test, if he were to hit 50 then he would.
The point about EPO is that you can not prove that anyone has taken it unlike say testosterone. The only trace of it is an abnormal red blood cell count.
Cyclists know their blood-cell count like they know their fat-percentage.
Hamilton was caught out by a new method of blood-testing. You'll note that Armstrong missed the last Olympics when they had these tests and which was only developed very late last year.
There is no test for HGH and TGH was only discovered by accident. So it is entirely possible for Armstrong to have got by all these years without being discovered.
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