Won tour De France

Armstrong sleeps in a tent that simulates high-altitude conditions during competition to help mask EPO.

Team members are supplied EPO by a team trainer.

After his Tour victory, the team director sends a teammate to Armstrong’s apartment to ensure there is no drug evidence there.

Armstrong supplies EPO to teammates.

Bought machinery to help monitor blood values to assure they remained at acceptable levels.

After a stage in the Tour de France, blood transfusions are given to the team members on the team bus ride back to the hotel.

Armstrong receives small doses of EPO to help mask the effect of blood transfusions on his blood values.

Transfusions continue, and Armstrong supplies teammates with EPO.

Still no testing for blood doping.

Armstrong starts to personally enforce the team doping program. He supplies testosterone to teammates.

No tests for blood transfusions are in place. Armstrong drops out of a race in Spain when warned of a test. He had just taken testosterone.

Armstrong tests positive for a corticosteroid. A doctor backdates a prescription for it claiming Armstrong had saddle sores.

Team begins blood doping in part because a new test emerges for EPO. Smaller doses of EPO will now be used to help avoid positive tests.

An Armstrong assistant, nicknamed Motoman, followed the team on a motorcycle during Tour de France stages carrying EPO.

Records of some payments made from Armstrong to Ferrari, who consulted on the team doping programs.

At World Championships, Armstrong receives saline to lower his red blood cell level in advance of a possible test.

The drugs were transported by team staff; administered by a team doctor.

Dr. Michele Ferrari

Evading positive tests

Administration or transportation of drugs

Blood doping

Human growth hormone

Corticosteroid

Testosterone

EPO

$100,000

$110,000

$475,000

$150,000

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