[OrRando] What if Floyd Landis were innocent?

[joel metz]

dont thank me - thank david rowe, who originally posted the link... i 
sloppily quoted :)

i personally tend to think that floyd is quite possibly innocent, but 
i have no illusions about the state of doping in the pro peloton - 
very little would surprise me.

what alarms me is the tack which is taken in these cases - the leaks 
to the press, the questionable history of the labs involved, the 
risks of false positives in some of the tests used - and the 
witch-hunt attitude of dick pound and wada, as well as the uci. in 
their drive to "clean up the sport", they seem to be willing to 
sacrifice potentially innocent people by prematurely releasing 
results, making announcements that prematurely convict the accused, 
etc etc...

and then theres the media, who not only pick up on the most unlikely 
of explanations (landis having a drink, hamilton having a vanishing 
twin) that were offerred as potential, if highly unlikely, 
explanations by the riders accused - but who sometimes blatantly 
misrepresent the facts in the case. i am completely fed up with 
reports that landis tested positive for elevated levels of 
testosterone. he tested for an abnormal testosterone:epitestosterone 
ratio, with a *normal* level of testosterone - ie his epitestosterone 
was *low*. theyre starting to straighten that one out, but the damage 
has already been done.

i dont doubt that it is indeed possible for landis to have doped. but 
even more than that possibility, what bothers me is the complete 
shambles the anti-doping system is, both in its actual test 
methodology, and in its respect for the riders careers and rights.

-joel

>Thank you for the article Joel.  I truly believe that Floyd is innocent and
>something weird is going on. Other things that don't add up are that the UCI
>made Floyd change his time trial bar position 2 hours before the first long
>time trial of the tour, a position he used all season in UCI sanctioned
>events.  Floyd took it in stride and even handled his aero bars breaking off
>partway into the stage due having to lower the bars.  He still finished
>second in the stage when nearly all the other contenders lost time.  Also
>people seem to be ignoring the fact that his tests at the tour before and
>after the stage were clean.
>
>Dave Read
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com [mailto:orrando-bounces at tire.patch.com]
>On Behalf Of joel metz
>Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 6:14 PM
>To: Oregon area Randonneurs
>Subject: Re: [OrRando] What if Floyd Landis were innocent?
>
>its about time SOMEONE in the media said it. the lot of them have been far
>too eager to convict landis before the evidence is in, far too eager to jump
>in the boat with those wankers mcquaid and pound.
>
>the whole thing stinks of a witch trial, a setup, to me - has since day one,
>far more so than hamilton did.
>
>-joel
>
>>Someone forwarded this article to me today.  I think it is well worth
>>the read.
>><http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/16/opinion/edeustice.php>http://www.ih
>t.com/articles/2006/08/16/opinion/edeustice.php.
>>
>>dr
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                                 after she got that bicycle...