Apparently, according to a couple of Dutch Journalists who have a book out Leinders had got Rabo to buy in a Sysmex XE 2100 in 2007 to test their team riders to ensure they did not fail any tests. So Menchov would have been on the program. I wonder what Cookson has to say about letting him join Sky? Sir Dave Brailsford telling us that Sky did everything they could to find out about his past before employing him, seems a little thin. Due diligence it so obviously is not.
It is one thing to hire somebody with a dodgy past and perhaps having a reputation as not being the sharpest cookie in the jar (Yates). It is quite another thing to hire the guy who goes about defeating the checks as an industrial process.
It is just taking the pi*s to tell us they did not know anything about him.
