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FLoyd Landis Drug Test Discussion Thread -- Please post links to all articles here.
none ^ | 28 Jul 2006 | Self

Posted on 07/28/2006 4:49:10 AM PDT by commish

Making a central thread for people to link articles, post comments, discuss, etc -- the Floyd Landis, Tour de France Doping scandal.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Sports
KEYWORDS: blooddoping; drugtesting; floydlandis; landis; phonak; tdf; testosterone; tourdefrance
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To: green iguana

Well, according to L'Equipe itself, the lab's been leaking to them about the over-the-top 1:11 T/E levels & that the testosterone is of exogenous (synthetic) origin.


101 posted on 07/31/2006 7:33:59 AM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani

Well there you go... hadn't read that. Thanks, leilani.


102 posted on 07/31/2006 7:47:33 AM PDT by green iguana (Way to go Floyd!)
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To: green iguana
Upon further reflection:You are right. Maybe I shouldn't be condemning the lab if it is some jerk at L'Equipe making all of this up & their lab "source" is non-existent.That's a distinct possibility.But this lab's reputation is pretty shaky, as the UCI report on the Lance/EPO leak investigation indicated it refused to elaborate on it's protocols, etc. There's enough doubt about a non-scientific agenda there that renders their credibility at least a little suspect.But if Floyd has his reps there to confirm the validity of the "B" testing, I do think he's sunk. (I'm assuming the sample sealing process is good enough that tampering could be exposed.)
103 posted on 07/31/2006 8:11:52 AM PDT by leilani
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To: green iguana
I realized I hadn't posted the (relative)confirmation I had found about the L'Equipe story in their Fri edition. It's here at procycling.com. Sorry, meant to put this up earlier.This piece have dueling experts about the IRMS (Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry) test that the lab in question uses to detect synthetic testosterone. Seems there's debate about that too. Sigh.
104 posted on 07/31/2006 9:31:02 AM PDT by leilani
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To: Baynative; NittanyLion; nutmeg; Eurotwit; leilani; luv2ski; Vision; BaBaStooey; green iguana
UCI requests expedited handling of Landis case
By AFP
This report filed July 31, 2006

The Union Cycliste Internationale demanded on Monday the "B" sample of Tour de France winner Floyd Landis be tested so that the doping scandal could be resolved sooner rather than later.

The 30-year-old American is facing the loss of his title and a two year ban after he returned a positive test for abnormal levels of testosterone following his win in the 17th stage of the Tour earlier this month.

However while Landis has protested his innocence the UCI moved on Monday to hasten up the process - by asking the laboratory Châtenay-Malabry to go ahead and test the "B" sample as Landis has failed to ask them himself - as they believe a quick solution to the affair would be better for the sport.

...more...

105 posted on 07/31/2006 4:24:56 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Ever had Vuja de? That feeling that you've never ever been here before? :)
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To: Ready4Freddy

Why do you think he hasn't asked yet? Delaying doesn't make him look good, unless they are trying to line up experts to help monitor?


106 posted on 07/31/2006 4:49:48 PM PDT by leilani
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To: Ready4Freddy; Baynative; NittanyLion; nutmeg; Eurotwit; leilani; luv2ski; BaBaStooey; ...
the UCI moved on Monday to hasten up the process - by asking the laboratory Châtenay-Malabry to go ahead and test the "B" sample as Landis has failed to ask them himself

Guys, while I will continue to support Landis until the truth is out, I'm beginning to have my doubts cause this isn't adding up.

What was all the mystery surrounding his "disappearance" when the story first broke? A question that ultra lame interviewer Larry King did not ask. Why was he not on the phone with Fox News/CNN that afternoon? I kind of see a pattern of calculation on Landis's part.

In the Larry King interview Landis mentioned that he had to request the second test and had five days to do so. He said something like "right now I'm deciding how to handle all this.". I thought, 'what is there to think about?' Also, Landis looked really nervous in that interview. Much more tense than his doctor, and at one point he wiped sweat off his forehead. Does this mean anything? I don't know, but I believe I now see a pattern emerging.

Another question, why is Landis not on the offensive if he rocked stage 17 all by himself? If he is innocent, he has the world's worst PR. I remember Armstrong was out clearing his good name constantly.
107 posted on 07/31/2006 4:56:52 PM PDT by Vision (“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me" Philippians 3:14)
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To: leilani
Dunno, leilani. One again, we have to keep in mind that most of what we've seen thus far is "he said / they said", although it appears that this time it is UCI saying that Landis hasn't requested the test yet.

Then there's the question of whether or not Phonak can make the request to do the 'B' test on a weekend.

108 posted on 07/31/2006 5:00:00 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Ever had Vuja de? That feeling that you've never ever been here before? :)
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To: leilani; Vision

But then one also has to ask - why didn't UCI follow their own rules, and give Landis the 5 days to request the additional test? The fact that all of France goes on holiday this Friday is significant, and would result in this dangling in the breeze for several weeks, but does that trump allowing Landis due process? There's probably compelling reasons to wait until the 5 days to request - lining up your own experts, as you or Vision mentioned, is one of them.


109 posted on 07/31/2006 5:09:15 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Ever had Vuja de? That feeling that you've never ever been here before? :)
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To: Vision

I have to agree that his PR has stunk from the get go. But there is the possibility that he's just not as worldly as Lance Armstrong. By all accounts, he didn't have the retinue of advisors and handlers that Lance did.If you're unsophisticated & you don't have those people around, what do you do? I guess you kind of flail around for a while in disbelief. I don't know that I would characterise him as nervous so much as overwhelmed.But I'm not deluding myself here. He could very well have made the biggest, dumbest mistake of his life.If he did do it, I just want the people who nail him for it to do it in a way where we can all trust the validity of the outcome.


110 posted on 07/31/2006 5:10:26 PM PDT by leilani
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To: Ready4Freddy
I believe Landis had 5 days from date the story broke to request the test. If so, isn't his time about up? And if he's arranging his own experts, why isn't he saying this publicly?

This is so confusing.
111 posted on 07/31/2006 5:14:56 PM PDT by Vision (“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me" Philippians 3:14)
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To: leilani
But if he's innocent, what does he need advisors for? Get out there and attack with the truth. Or call Lance and go from there.
112 posted on 07/31/2006 5:18:02 PM PDT by Vision (“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me" Philippians 3:14)
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To: Vision; leilani
The article said:

If the UCI had stood by and waited till Wednesday for Landis to appeal for the B sample to be tested the result would not be known for several weeks as the laboratory shuts for the holidays at week's end.

Presumably that's the deadline. Story started hitting the wires here last Wed night / Thurs AM? Thurs-Wed would be 5 business days. One might also note that the deadline indicates when Landis/Phonak were notified, so it's obvious that the leaker(s) wasted no more than a few nano-seconds before they picked up the phone...

113 posted on 07/31/2006 5:24:18 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Heheh, funny to use the term 'leakers' in story concerning UAs... heheheh)
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To: Vision

Those advisors will help him identify the truth with which to attack... I'm thinking that Floyd's not much of a biochemist, at least not of the professional variety.


114 posted on 07/31/2006 5:27:20 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Ever had Vuja de? That feeling that you've never ever been here before?)
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To: Ready4Freddy
I was thinking the story broke on Tuesday. I forgot there was a day or two of the "unnamed rider tested positive".

So the question of the day is...Is Landis fighting back behind the scenes
115 posted on 07/31/2006 5:29:50 PM PDT by Vision (“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me" Philippians 3:14)
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To: Vision

You need advisors to get experts on the phone to explain the results, quanitfy what they mean, figure out what the implications are, set up press conferences.Lance was on a bike in the middle of Iowa & they weren't on the best of terms. I'm willing to cut him some slack on not knowing what the hell to do at first.But he needs to get on the ball, I agree.Lance went after 'em like a bulldog.Then again, he had a lot of experience with it, too.


116 posted on 07/31/2006 5:30:30 PM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani; Ready4Freddy
Let's just face it

None of this makes any sense, in any aspect of the story.
117 posted on 07/31/2006 5:33:22 PM PDT by Vision (“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me" Philippians 3:14)
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To: Vision

yeah. I posted that further upthread today ( my hint to the Landis people)


118 posted on 07/31/2006 5:33:44 PM PDT by leilani
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To: Vision
I posted that too (LOL) the other thread today! ;-)
119 posted on 07/31/2006 5:36:36 PM PDT by leilani
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To: Vision; leilani; luv2ski
Looks like commish posted the 1st 'unnamed rider' article on Wed, 7/26. I know, I know, it just seems like this has been going on for months....

I remember when leilani was posting about how she wasn't looking forward to 'Tour withdrawal' and she was gonna miss hanging around with us, I think I posted something back to the effect of 'No worries, we'll still have a few more Landis feel-good articles to discuss, and then his surgery to follow...'

Little did I know.... :>(

120 posted on 07/31/2006 6:03:57 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Ever had Vuja de? That feeling that you've never ever been here before?)
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