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To: dfwgator

If he isn't cleared, he would be the first cyclist who failed this notoriously unreliable test who wasn't.


57 posted on 07/28/2006 9:27:04 AM PDT by green iguana (Way to go Floyd!)
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To: green iguana
green iguana, I'm thinking (even aside from the growing consensus outside of cycling circles that the T/E ratio test the UCI has been using to try to disqualify FL & others before him is dispositive of nothing let alone that any athlete cheated,and they are beginning to look like malevolent fools to the rest of the sentient world) their malfeasance against the Astana riders could well bankrupt them; if those guys don't have a slamdunk case for massive real+punitive damages against the UCI for depriving them of projected earnings, I'll eat my hat, I don't care who signed what where beforehand that they had a right to pull 'em out on mere "suspicion". I don't think UCI in its current incarnation can survive this if only because they're not going to be able to find an insurance underwriter to back them after all this is said & done. Too many eyebrows have been raised across the globe & there's no way this organization is going to survive the intense scrutiny from outside cycling it's invited upon itself. Maybe all of this is good for cycling after all.(I just wish Arlene Landis didn't have to be put through what she's been put through to get cycling fixed though.)
61 posted on 07/28/2006 10:19:06 AM PDT by leilani
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