Things get tricky for Triki

Manuel Beltran has been removed from the Tour for failing a drug test (EPO) after Stage 1. Beltran is on the Liquigas team, but was on USPS/Discovery a few years ago when Lance Armstrong was busy writing the record books.

1) It took a week for the Tour to pull the plug on him. Was that because they were careful to get the testing accurate?

2) Now that he's been caught, will he say that Lance Armstrong took dope too?