It just keeps unfolding ...
Andrey Kashechkin (Astana's third man in its Big Three) has just tested positive for blood doping. It was an out of competition test taken when the vampires surprised him while he was hiding out in Turkey.
And now there is a press conference scheduled for Friday by Señor Contador. Bruyneel is reported to be present for that. And the notice to the media says he will read a prepared statement but will NOT answer any questions.
There are all sorts of things Contador could be there to reveal/announce, including a surprise entry into the Vuelta, a new contract extension with Discovery, etc. But the darker possibility is that he and Bruyneel have been tipped that the Operacion Puerto documents obtained by Werner Franke and turned over to authorities have caught him, and this is an attempt to get out ahead of the story and control the spin.
If that turns out to be the case, look for him to pull a Basso and make an admission that is strictly limited to only that which he thinks can be fully proven. Likely, he would claim to "one-time" use, claim that it made him sick so he stopped, and that Bruyneel was unaware of this when he came to Discovery, where he never, never ever doped.
Also, it looks as though, for time being, Anne Gripper and the UCI have figured out how to catch these guys in the act while they sneak off to their "training camps". I'm thinking she was incensed to see Astana boldly declare that it was going to enter the Vuelta despite the Vino situation and the other positives they had, and decided to specifically target Kashechkin, who fairly clearly was going to be Astana's #1 GC candidate and someone they thought could win that race. I wonder if she wasn't also a bit irritated that the Vuelta brazenly extended and invitation not only to Astana, but to Relax-Gan, the other primary refuge of the OP dopers. (Between them, Astana, Discovery and Relax-Gan employed the bulk of the highest profile names from the OP debacle).
Doubtless, in the future of this cat and mouse game, the dopers will realize they need to find an alternative to the homomlogous blood doping method, and that they'll need to figure something other than the crude method of geographically out of the way "training camps" and "vacations" to do their business.
Of course this will bring up another point -- what will the ASO/TDF clowns say now? After blaming the UCI for Rasmussen and Vino, they brayed on and on about having a clean podium and a great clean race, and that the positives of Vino and Mayo proved the testing was catching all the dirty ones.
