This is credible: despite his steroid use Johnson passed 19 successive drug tests between 1986 and 1988, by mastering the art of leaving enough time between his last dose and his next race for all trace of it to leave his system.
I still went out and rode the next race – purely out of temper.
The winners choose the venue of the next race, and there are, inevitably, legal challenges of one sort or another along the way.
He will next race in the Tour of Switzerland, which starts Saturday, and said that his decision to compete in Luxembourg might have been made at the last minute but that it was a good choice.
"When a horse wants to run, they carry you along," Bravo said as he walked back through the paddock, where a disappointed pair of friends were wishing they had bet on him this time, and trying to figure out how they might make up for it in the next race, their last chance of the afternoon.
If he reaches four penalty points he will have to start the next race from the back of the grid.
"My winter training has gone well, and ahead of the next race in San Diego I'll get another block of training in.
These identified contigs were removed from the list of putative BNGR contigs, and the next RACE was started from one of the residual contigs.
