I think it a day late and a dollar short. If the second test comes back positive Phonek will fire him and then Landis will and may even prevail in court but it won't matter. This is not a court case. This is a public relations debacle of the first magnitude. We can all keep our fingers crossed but I think it is false optimism. I really do.
Maybe he thought he could slip a false sample in. That's been done before too.
Let me put it in these terms. If I were Floyd Landis and knew for a certainty I was clean, the very first thing I would have done was to have called a press conference and looked the camera and audience in the eye and declared unequivocally that the tests had to be wrong as I hadn't used anything. Offer to take a lie detector test. And let the press conference go on for hours or however long as there were questions to be asked. Instead he went into hiding almost immediately.
You tell me. Does this look like an innocent man to you? Not in my books. He got caught and he's trying to offer up excuses and they won't wash. It is said that everyone has their price. Evidently his was reached during this tour. It's not a pretty sight but the facts are the facts. And it's a damned shame.
Now you are just making things up. Landis was suspended by his team as per the rules. As such he left the races he was at and he returned to his team HQ. He then went to his Doctor, and gathered a team together to find out what he had to do to beat this thing.
Within 4 hours of his name being released -- REMEMBER THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CONFIDENTIAL UNTIL THE B TEST WAS TAKEN -- he called Austin Murphy of CNN-SI and gave him an exclusive interview. Then within 7 hours of his name being released he held a 25 press conference with all press who wished to attend.
But go ahead and smear him and pronounce him guilty and have him skulking around back alleys if it makes you feel good.
This is not a court case.