A few more points:
Paula can use the altitude excuse no matter where she was located, even if not at an altitude location, because she can say she was using an altitude tent, even if she was at a sea level location.
However, altitude is irrelevant in the half marathon world championship race. The problem is the huge magnitude of change in the OFF score from 82 pre race with a hemoglobin level of 12(borderline anemic) to an OFF score of 114.9 post race with a hemoglobin level of 14.8(towards the upper level of normal range for females which is 12-15g/dl.). The excuse of dehydration can only explain an increase in hemoglobin of about 1.6-2.2g/dl, while Paula has an increase of 2.8g/dl in her hemoglobin level from a race in which she beat the rest of the world's best female runners by over a minute while anemic, and simultaneously developing a level of dehydration that seems very unlikely could be achieved in a just over an hour long race.
This is not very likely. Paula in her new interview recognizes this, and CHANGES HER STORY AGAIN, to IT MUST BE A LAB ERROR IN MY PRERACE NUMBERS. If a Russian athlete tried to use this excuse, we would all laugh them out of town! If every athlete, when confronted with very suspicious blood results, can use the IT MUST BE A LAB ERROR excuse, then we can just throw out every positive test for every athlete that has ever tested positive in history.
If it was a lab error, then let's see the results of other runners tested the same day at the same lab, to see if their OFF scores and Hemoglobin levels were also in error and whose numbers would also be decreased too much. If so, this would help back up Paula's scenario. She says in her interview that it was too long ago and the equipment has been changed and we can't go back and look. I think we can. Was Paula the only athlete tested on that day at that lab? I doubt it. The IAAF probably has the numbers of the other athletes.
If not a lab error, then the most likely explanation of her blood results is an autologous blood transfusion. As there was no ABP then, she still gets off with no positive test, and gets to keep all her results, awards, and money... but her reputation is ruined forever.
It is also disingenuous for her to say that her suspicious results were not near important races, as this test was at the World Halfmarathon Championships, and another suspicious test was within a week before the 2005 World Championship Marathon where she won the gold medal!
These are not important races? Are you kidding me Paula?