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As I posted on the other thread where Yobid had provided Floyd's counterattack today: AMEN & ALLELUIA! Finally, Floyd starts acting like he has some of that extra testosterone & begins to fight back. He said " (UCI head) Pat McQuaid said he had to release mine before the lab leaked it." This is accurate. And I have been waiting a week now for the same journalists who've been so busy boning up on the esoteric intricacies of esters & isotopes to ask this one simple question: If even Patrick McQuaid is so worried about the questionable ethics of the lab he is trusting to make these life & death determinatiuons for his athlete's careers that he felt he had to violate the UCI's own codified rules & PREEMPT THE LAB'S LEAK, for God's sake,why is he even USING them? If this lab has repeatedly demonstrated "in a most immodest way" that it has a suspicious agenda outside of its narrowly proscribed scientific purview, how can anyone trust the 'results' they proffer? And what does this say about the "governing body" which continues to retain these hacks? HMMM? Sports journalists out there? Can you get this question answered for us?(Good going Team Landis!Better late than never! You need to keep hitting this one home.)

Some recent articles for the (now) weekly news roundup from my house to yours:

Samuel Abt article in Int'l Herald Tribune

Elsewhere, Lance Armstrong seems to backtrack on his earlier advice to Floyd to vigorously defend himself. LA statement at the Indy race Saturday 8/12/06 Now he's telling FL to hush up & lay low. Say what?

And Tim Maloney, Cycling News' european correspondent scorches Dick Pound's bizarre op-ed rant against Floyd that appeared in the Ottawa Citizen here today.