Audran said the possible use of PFC's had come to his attention earlier, in May, during a stage of the Tour of Romandie in Switzerland, when the Swiss cyclist Mauro Gianetti, unconscious and in danger, was taken to a hospital in the little town of Montigny. Doctors there were unable to diagnose the stricken rider's condition, and within hours, Gianetti was transported by ambulance to the university hospital in Lausanne, almost 40 miles away. According to a doctor in the Lausanne hospital who spoke on condition of anonymity, the emergency room doctors suspected some kind of infection and ordered the appropriate tests. Gianetti was in intensive care for 10 days; all the tests came back negative. ''His symptoms were difficulty breathing, muscle pain, gastroenteritis and what we call intravascular coagulation,'' the doctor said. ''It was a very dangerous problem.'' Two doctors from the Lausanne hospital suspected that Gianetti had been given PFC's without his knowledge and reported their suspicions, said Nicolas Cruchet, a judge in Lausanne. Cruchet launched an official investigation. Reached at his home two weeks ago in Tessin, high in the Swiss Alps, Gianetti said: ''Yes, I was very ill with an infection, but I didn't inject myself with anything. The investigation is not against me. It is against somebody who could have given me something.'' LOLZ www.salon.com ---- Hein Verbruggen, alors Président de l'UCI, à propos de déclarations de Gilles Delion laissant entendre que <b>...</b>
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