Posted on 08/07/2006 10:47:51 PM PDT by AZRepublican
Not that it will matter.
I understand the test(s) he was given is notoriously unreliable, according to my professor the test requires consistant results over about a a dozen times to determine whether there is increased testosterone in the blood from a drug.
Something doesn't fit. I suspect there are many failures and they are picking on the Americain to create a smoke screen
Many failures from him or just generally amongst the other racers? Perhaps the French in disgust that Americans have won it so many times in a row decided to make the Americans look bad by rigging the tests.
That's why Armstrong was such a paranoid ass most of the time, he knew that they were out to get him.
It could be one of three things:
1) two false positives in a row on the same sample
2) He screwed up his masking schedule
3) He figured since he was 8 minutes behind, and everybody thought he was finished, he took "something."
I had the similar thoughts. I find it very difficult to explain his results over the 3 day period in which he tested positive.( 1 day neg, next day pos., next day neg.)
(1)T/E changes in people daily. If he was high to begin with, as he has said,a couple really tough races would force the body to make more Tes to recover. It would be interesting to see his T/E average over all stages tested(including his +). I would bet that he would be negative.
(2) If he was on the gear. He would be concerned enough to not screw this one up. As it is just as important if not more important than the other.
(3) He would have to be the most stupid person in the world to piss away his million dollar contract with phonak over a TDF victory that where he knows they would nail him. Still how do you explain all the other negatives results. A boost will show up for a long time.
This is an interesting one.
I suspect he was blood doping -- getting a transfusion of blood rich in red cells that he set aside six weeks or two months earlier, when he was using testosterone as a training aid. He probably just got the blood bottles mixed up and tapped the wrong one.
More on blood doping here:
http://www.slate.com/id/2107096/
The thesis of the article is that once a certain amount of doped testosterone is present in the body, it can take a long time for the levels to drop. How does blood doping account for the immediate drop in levels after the time of the positive?
Damn these guys are good!
Except for the one guy.
PS: He wound up being ok.
http://mtbbill.com/videos/milescrash-500k.mpg
The French are pissed that Americans continually win their sporting event.
LOL!! "Oh sh%*!....Uhh,did ya film it?". Ahh, priorities in the digital age.(Glad he's okay.)
It could be one of three things:
1) two false positives in a row on the same sample
2) He screwed up his masking schedule
3) He figured since he was 8 minutes behind, and everybody thought he was finished, he took "something."
-He sure acted guilty at first. Not showing up for scheduled events, initial interviews showed him gazing at his shoes, somber and accepting that the 2nd test would show similar results. I agree, he didn't mask the test enough.
I had no idea they used mtn bikers as live crash dummies!
According to Landis's website, he showed NORMAL levels of testosterone; what skewed the results was an unusually LOW reading for the E value. Thus the popular idea that he was loaded with 11 times the normal level of testosterone is false.
Additionally, the test for synthetic versus natural test. is also a test of ratios of chemical compounds. Unfortunately, an overwhelming number of reports in the media state that he had high testosterone levels, and I have yet to hear a newscast that reported correctly that the test. level was normal and the epi level was low.
Another thought I had was that his reaction to all of this was clearly someone who was completely unprepared to deal with the test result. Seems to me someone who is or has been doping would have already rehearsed or at least thought about how he would handle something like this if he were to get caught.
Just my completely uneducated two cents....
I think someone probably slipped him something in those whiskeys. It's the only logical explanation
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