<p>News just hit yahoo this morning. It doesn’t look good, but he has asked for his second sample to be tested. This would be such a shame. I would be so surprised and disappointed. It seems so stupid, especially when there was so much pre race publicity about doping.</p>
<p>Yea this sucks so bad</p>
<p>Just hoping that it’s a false result and the B sample will test negative.</p>
<p>I’m sure he’s in contact with Lance, learning how to deal with those French bast ards. Everything they do over there at the Tour seems a little shady. The whole Lance thing and this year taking away the Team Time Trial. Guess who’s good at the TTT? An American team. All it takes is a little cash from some French media organization to get the lab technician to switch samples or something along those lines. It’s just all so sad.</p>
<p>I don’t think we can blame the sport’s drug problems on the French.</p>
<p>I, too, hope the test B turns out negative. If it doesn’t, it’s not so much a commentary on Landis as it is on what has become of the sport itself. After all the latest publicity and the number of riders disqualified for positive testing, the only way Landis would have contintued, imo, is if everyone else is also doing it. Very sad, and very bad for what was once a wonderful sport.</p>
<p>By no means am I blaming cycling’s problems on the French. It’s everyone doing it: Americans, Italians, Spaniards, French, Germans, etc. I do not trust them, however, when it comes to testing American samples. Luckily, Lance is too smart for them and has cleared his name, at least in America. I strongly believe Floyd will be able to pull through this as well, as I believe he is innocent. There’s just too many things that don’t add up in his case.</p>
<p>it doesn’t add up. he didn’t test positive for use earlier in the race, and testosterone is something you’d take over a period of time…it certainly looks bad but we don’t know for sure.
actually even the results are disputable: his ratio of testosterone to other hormones was 4 to 1 but the official level to test positive was considered 6 to 1 until very recently. only recently was the bar dropped to 4 to 1. it’s not a super-positive result. he’s on the threshold.</p>
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I agree… and I don’t give 2 squats about cycling and I think all top athletes use performance enhancing drugs! But how did he pass all the other tests? Testosterone is not something you would take today to give yourself a boost tomorrow. I wonder what his test ratio was in the previous tests. Was it just barely under 4:1 and then on the last test was slightly greater than 4:1? Or did the ratio spike from a low level to a high level? If the B sample tests differently from the A sample, then either the test was screwed up or the sample was tampered with… and if the A sample was tampered with, why not the B sample?</p>
<p>I agree with the previous statements about it not adding up.</p>
<p>I would also point out that Landis has a thyroid condition and takes cortisone shots for his hip condition, both of which could seriously mess with his testosterone level.</p>
<p>I think the rush to judgment has been really appalling. I’m working in Switzerland right now, and the headline in one of the dailies today was “Landis Was Doped!” Um…way to not let facts and process get in the way of a story.</p>
<p>None of this adds up. “Dark cloud” indeed. Landis still has time to come up with “the burden of proof” if he decides to fight for the Tour de France title and contest the charges.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/sports/05cnd-landis.ready.html?hp&ex=1154836800&en=768b73ef1c6cfb5c&ei=5094&partner=homepage[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/sports/05cnd-landis.ready.html?hp&ex=1154836800&en=768b73ef1c6cfb5c&ei=5094&partner=homepage</a></p>
<p>Of course it adds up. Do the math.</p>
<p>Well, we will find out soon enough how it all adds up and pans out - Landis will go to arbitration to contest the charges and fight to clear his name “with determination and intensity”.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-CYC-Landis-Doping.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-CYC-Landis-Doping.html</a></p>
<p>Cf. Tyler Hamilton. Also innocent. Also went to arbitration. Also sat out his two year suspension. And also implicated in Operation Puerto, so may never get another job offer.</p>
<p>But I’m sure you’re right.</p>