Good observation
I doubt seriously cyclists like Rasmussen are going to be buying stuff like this from anyone other than a rogue doctor or clinician. Again, there just wasn't that much of this stuff manufactured by 2002. I believe Rasmussen never left Colorado, and likely was never anywhere other than the short corridor between Denver and Vail.
BioPure was selling less than 10,000 units of its veterinary version of the stuff (Oxyglobin) per year then. There's no chance they had a particularly large number of individuals involved in a clinical trial.
The observation you made -- that someone charged Rasmussen big bucks for the stuff -- suggests there's a lot more to this story. We don't just have cyclists trying to get their hands on cutting edge stuff, we have greedy and unethical clinicians and/or doctors selling it under the table.
Again, I think if someone really wanted to find out the origin, it could have been done. And then there would have been a real story going beyond cycling.
Rasmussen didn't just see this magical potion in his dream one night, wake up and find the name of the seller in the yellow pages. Someone had to have told him about the stuff, and then directed him to the crooked doctor. That means the doctor had at least two "patients" and in all likelihood, they were elite cyclists. Whom else would Rasmussen know or be talking with in the U.S. that would have had that type of conversation with him?
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