Hey,€urøtwit, don't know if you hang around FR in the TdF off-season, but I've been wondering, did Thor Hushovd ride in the Giro this year? If so, any stage wins? I thought if anybody would know, you would.
"The one metabolite that has been identified by WADA-accredited laboratories as the best, and longest-term indicator, of exogenous testosterone usage was reported as negative in Landis’ urine samples...
These errors include markedly inconsistent testosterone and epitestosterone levels from testing on the ‘A’ sample as well as multiple mismatched sample code numbers that do not belong to Landis."
Floyd showed up at the Univest Grand Prix Criterium of Doylestown last Sun & gave interviews before the filing to several Philly area publications. At phillyburbs.com he says:
“The "B' sample was tested five weeks ago now, almost six weeks ago, but we waited until last Friday to get back the results. So we've been unable to do anything other than speculate why they came out that way,” said Landis, with Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong, only the third American to win the Tour. “When I say the results, they obviously announced that vaguely they were positive. But we were given now, 300, almost 400 pages of documents for the actual tests to analyze.”
He said they submitted the "request for the case to be dropped because, based on the "A' and the "B' sample, there are too many contradictions for the two to be the same sample,” he said. “Assuming they disagree with that (request), then we will go to arbitration with the US Anti-Doping Association, their agency, I should say...So Monday we make a submittal, later in the week, Friday I guess, they will decide whether it goes to a hearing or not and if it does they'll decide on a date then, and I assume it will be December or January. That's the status at this time.”
At philly.com he said:
"We'll try to get more evidence," he said. "They refuse to provide information for us to make arguments. That's unacceptable... . I was tested eight times in the Tour. This one came in the middle. We'd like to show this was out of order in the series of tests." Landis said he was encouraged when track star Marion Jones' name was recently cleared after her backup sample was negative. "As you see, they just demonstrated that they misrepresented their test," he said. "They've been doing the same thing with the testosterone test. It's not cut-and-dry like they say... . They need to proceed from here on out with my case and everyone else in the interest of science and fairness, instead of making a name for themselves."
Landis says the legal defense process has been so time consuming that he's postponed hip surgery and his daily bike rides.