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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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21 posted on 07/28/2006 7:09:12 AM PDT by VOA
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To: commish
The International Olympic Committee has completely dropped this test from it's testing regimen because it is so inaccurate. They have gone to a straight test for the synthetic Epitestosterone.

I think that fact needs to be bumped in bold.

22 posted on 07/28/2006 7:09:49 AM PDT by leilani
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To: commish
the leaker has accomplished exactly what they wanted An investigation needs to be opened & the leaker, regardless of what happens with Landis's appeal, needs to be prosecuted if this sport is going to be anything other than the punchline to an international joke.What happened here was absolutely criminal.
23 posted on 07/28/2006 7:15:50 AM PDT by leilani
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To: commish

This appears to be a good source and has several links. Cycling News appears to be on top of this situation.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/jul06/jul28news3


24 posted on 07/28/2006 7:17:34 AM PDT by RichardW
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To: commish

This appears to be a good source and has several links. Cycling News appears to be on top of this situation.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2006/jul06/jul28news3


25 posted on 07/28/2006 7:17:48 AM PDT by RichardW
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To: commish

This is conspiratorial and that's the domain of the left. Let's not go there.


26 posted on 07/28/2006 7:21:06 AM PDT by RichardW
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To: leilani
I wouldn't rush to judgement on the UCI either.

Oh, I would. This is the organization that smeared Lance repeatedly over the years, even after he retired by releasing confidential info. By releasing any information that might make him look bad while not mentioning the much more voluminous info that cleared him. This is the group that made sure a large group of innocent guys couldn't race the TdF this year, including Vino. This is the group that continues to use a discredited testosterone test even after hundreds of cyclists have failed it and then been cleared by a much more reliable one. And it's been going on for years. The UCI is the organization that nullified Graeme Obree's World Hour Record by stating that his novel bike violated their rules even though they changed the rules after the record was set. This is the group that sent an official out onto the track and interfered with Obree because he was about to win the World Pursuit Track Championship. His bike had been declared legal before the start of the race. The UCI continued to say the bike was legal, they just didn't like the way he was sitting on it. There were no UCI regulations pertaining to how one must sit on a bike. The UCI had it in for Lance - they make that look like a minor nothing the way they had it in for Obree.

The UCI is a joke - it needs to be replaced by a credible oversight organization.

27 posted on 07/28/2006 7:48:58 AM PDT by green iguana (Way to go Floyd!)
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From CyclingNews.com: Floyd Landis positive: Was it the beer?
28 posted on 07/28/2006 7:57:49 AM PDT by BaBaStooey (I heart Emma Caulfield.)
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To: leilani

I smell a rat for the whole story from the gitgo!!!


29 posted on 07/28/2006 8:00:37 AM PDT by Toidylop
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To: green iguana

You know a lot more about their history than I. All I have to go on is what the UCI in its current incarnation did to the poor schmucks on Astana who were prevented from riding the TdF and "cleared" right after the final stage cavalierly wrecking possibly Vino's last chance to win at a sport he's dedicated his life to. I was(am?) willing to ascribe their misdeeds to just plain old-fashioned reckless malfeasance borne of bureaucratic hubris, since they do seem to be screwing innocent riders of lots of nationalities. But I tell you what, if they don't get their pathetic act together, this sport is toast no matter what the ultimate outcome on Floyd.(Makes me want to apply to law school TODAY! Can I bunk w/you if they take me back up there, GI?LOL!)


30 posted on 07/28/2006 8:04:06 AM PDT by leilani
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To: BaBaStooey; green iguana; leilani; Ready4Freddy; RichardW; nutmeg
HEADS UP --- LANDIS PRESS CONFERENCE IN 15 MINUTES.

Also, story from Fox Sports -- Landis may get B results Monday. Landis Could Learn Tour Fate by Monday

31 posted on 07/28/2006 8:17:46 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
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Thanks for the heads up! Where is the press conference... ESPN? OLN? Sorry, just logged on... haven't had time to read this thread yet.


32 posted on 07/28/2006 8:22:28 AM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: commish

Thanks for the links & heads up. I sure hope he has a gaggle of docs & World Anti-doping members with him. I've been thinking his PR people have sucked eggs so far.Fingers crossed they now know what they're up against & have a battle plan in place.


33 posted on 07/28/2006 8:26:19 AM PDT by leilani
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To: whattajoke; CyberCowboy777; Aeronaut; jern; concentric circles; Petronski; Voss; stylin_geek; ...
Tour de France ping!

HEADS UP --- LANDIS PRESS CONFERENCE at about 11:30am ET. (Sorry, I don't know where... see post #31)

Also, check posts 1-31 on this thread... lots of good links, interviews, etc. about the current Landis situation.

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my Tour de France 2006 list.

34 posted on 07/28/2006 8:27:34 AM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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Do you know where this press conference will be? ESPN, OLN, CNN...?


35 posted on 07/28/2006 8:28:17 AM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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Don't know. I have it tuned to ESPN,I don't even know if I have access to the others. (chances are it's not OLN - they don't do stuff like this.)


36 posted on 07/28/2006 8:30:05 AM PDT by leilani
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Not sure who will have it. Imagine ESPN NEWS will carry it live maybe ESPN main. I am cubicle bound today, so I am counting on others to post tidbits.


37 posted on 07/28/2006 8:31:12 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
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To: commish

What a good idea. Thanks for doing this.


38 posted on 07/28/2006 8:33:06 AM PDT by Voss
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MSNBC! About to start!


39 posted on 07/28/2006 8:33:27 AM PDT by leilani
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Sorry, meant to ring your pinger. MSNBC!


40 posted on 07/28/2006 8:34:02 AM PDT by leilani
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