Today the news came out that Floyd Landis’ A sample contained traces of exogenos testosterone. This means that testosertone in his system is not his and was either administered or injested somehow. This type of test does not need to be retested since the results look at the composition of the testosterone in the urine… Read more »
Posts Tagged: doping
Floyd on Larry King
(pic from http://newsbusters.org/) Floyd Landis made the appearance that every celebrity or politician makes when they are in the middle of a scandal. They go on Larry King whose softball questions help to calm frenzied media situations down. No situation needed more of a cool down period (other than all that craziness in the Middle… Read more »
Floyd Landis is Everywhere
A cancelled stint on The Tonight Show does not mean that Floyd Landis is not putting a full court press in the media. Coming out more defiant and confident than the day before Floyd Landis has been trying to counter the negative media by trying to give his side of the story to anyone that… Read more »
Landis: I didn’t do it
Austin Murphy of Sports Illustrated got a call back from Floyd Landis. Murphy is probably the first reporter that Landis has spoken with since the news broke today of the positive drug test. In the interview Murphy asks Floyd the obvious question and gets an obvious answer. I asked him straight up: “Did you do… Read more »
In Defense of Landis
Floyd Landis’ higher than normal testoterone positive drug test could be defended. There are several factors which lead to this positive test. The first is the fact that WADA recently lowered the threshold of testosterone: The World Anti-Doping Agency has lowered the limit for the maximum T/E level from 6:1 to 4:1. Some athletes have… Read more »
Operation Puerto: Five Points Against Basso
Details are coming out on the case against Ivan Basso as Gazzetta Dello Sport reports. In the case against Basso, his name is never mentioned, but it is derived from code words used between Fuentes and Labarta. During the Giro D’Italia Labarta mentions to Fuentes “You have the first and second in the overall GC”…. Read more »
Operation Puerto: Where’s The Proof?
(pic from eurosport) Seems that the ProTour code of conduct was a bit too stringent. The Diretor Sportifs used the idea that if a rider is under suspicion that they should not compete. That is a very admirable line, but the reality is that the “under suspicion” idea is detrimental to the sport in general…. Read more »
Operation Puerto: Time to Chill Out
Hopefully the craziness from Operation Puerto dies down long enough for some racing to take place in the next few days. I am all for stopping cheaters, but the way El Pais, and the Spanish authorities have run this latest scandal it is very irresponsible. The who scandal is being played out in the press… Read more »
Don’t Believe Tyler
El Pais is churning out stories from Operation Puerto on a daily basis and Tuttobici web has some translations to Italian. Velochimp kindly translates it for you while providing some insight. Seems like information is starting to come out and names are being tagged with the documents. In all due respect, it is not fair… Read more »
No CV in TDF
(pic from Eurosport) Comunidad Valencianna (formerly Kelme) are now uninvited to the Tour de France as a result of the Operation Puerto investigation. No surprise from this announcement as it was already seen as a done deal. Jean Marie Leblanc has stated previously that no other team will be invited in place of CV. No… Read more »