[leilani]

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.

[Ready4Freddy]

Thank you, leilani. I see you've got that target="_blank" working quite well! ;>)

[Vision]

This case is so strange we won't know what happened until more independent facts come out. A bombshell is waiting either to explode on Landis or the French. The facts seem to be with Landis, so I back him.

It will just tick away for another six months and then we will hear the explosion.

[Steve_Seattle]

Bobby Julich makes an interesting comment in the Maloney story, something to the effect that maybe someone in Landis's OWN TEAM slipped him something. Didn't Landis have several mechanical breakdowns during the tour? First, their was the mysteriously cut tire, discovered moments before the first time trial. Then - I think - there was another bike failure - broken steering, or some such thing - during another stage. Then - during stage 17 - he suffered a collapsed wheel, and had to swap wheels or bikes with a teammate. Am I remembering this right? So, throughout the tour, it was as if Landis was being sabotaged. Then, the mysterious, one-time appearance of synthetic testosterone, even though Landis's OVERALL testosterone level was in the normal range. Ok, I know I'm sounding like a tinfoil-hat guy . . . but was someone in Team Phonak trying to "get" Landis?