Floyd Landis – The UCI comes out fighting

Ho Ho Ho what a laugh add to it a mixed a twist of surreal python humour with some outlandish Goon concepts thrown in for good measure and you get some idea of where this is going.

If we are to believe that to be this successful at doping and to have riders tested over 2000 times (for the team this number seems realistic if slightly low in my opinion) plus and never test positive, seems to me to be some what unbelievable and very fanciful. How about being as negative and creative as to why these cyclists who make these accusations may have other reasons for making these comments. We are definately in python or goon territory here.

You can suppose or pontificate but there is no evidence. No evidence and many many negative tests = guilt by creative supposition or what if suggestions. We all can dream but to say a team or an individual is guilty because they could get away with it - if they did it this way, with no actual evidence, except through the rantings of one bitter and angry cyclist who can't even get it right as to which race Lance Armstrong rode in then it should be treated with the comtempt that that it deserves.

Assuming @DaSy is right how do the racers avoid the random tests done at all hours that we hear the racers continually tweeting about?
the worm has a book coming out and wants an unthinking audience to fork out once again!
Attached a comment made elsewhere
"HOW can a worm write a book or have it written for him and then after pocketing "Donors money" as well as "Royalties" stand up in the full light of day and shout out
"FOOLS!! TOOK YOU ALL FOR IDIOTS!! NOW HERE IS THE REAL STORY THIS TIME!" PAY ATTENTION THIS IS MY LAST CHANCE!"
ARE any of you listening to this "would be "contrite" if he could be"??
Please folks, there are "bad Apples in any barrel ", but the worm has tried to implicate everyone and says he has no evidence to support his "flights of fancy"!
Motorcycles with fridges are used by tourists, seen them in camping sites, but Pullman Coaches on the side of the road with sponsors as well as racers on board doing WHAT? Are we on Planet flandis, or on planet earth?
Eurosport has an entertaining program "planet armstrong" which i enjoy but i doubt anyone in their "right mind" will broadcast a program with the worm as it's star!
When the book is remaindered someone send me a copy to keep in the "dunny" as i can put it to good use there, as i an an environmentalist in reusing paper!
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Those in the Media use your money supporting "Para Sport" instead of throwing it to low life to support their habit of lying to all

A quote from Prentice Steffen -

..Before going to the start of the Tour, the riders of certain teams, during their training camps, took EPO (which disappears from the urine within three days, even 12 hours when small doses are used) and took their hematocrits up to around 60. Then a doctor withdraws their blood, saving it in special containers, to lower their blood parameters into the accepted range (50) so that they pass without difficulty the medical controls before the Tour. Then, as the teams well know, during the race the vampires (2) can arrive any day but always between 7 and 8 in the morning. After that time, there is no more testing and the riders were able to reinject their own blood. They were racing the stage with an enormous advantage- their hemotrocrit in the 55 to 58 range during the race- then in the evening at the hotel, someone again withdraws their blood so that they sleep without risk (3) and, especially, they escape the possible tests the next morning.

EPO and blood transfusing go hand in hand. Micro dosing EPO only stays in the blood for a very short time, so the blood is taken when the EPO has raised haemitocrit, then stored.

So taking blood will lower haemitocrit, and riders test okay, then reintroduce the high HT blood when required for specific stages.

But how did Johan Bruyneel do it? He's never had a positive doping test until Li tested positive for clenbuterol last month.

I guess his riders could have used EPO until the test was developed, then switched to storing and transfusing their own blood. But did any of them ever have suspiciously high heamatocrit?

Funny how many riders that left US Postal\Discovery got caught for doping after they left, ie, Heras, Landis and Hamilton, seems like maybe just a better regime for avoiding detection with US Postal\Discovery.

Add to that the likes of Zabel, Riis and Aldag who all admitted doping but were never detected by any doping controls.

It is naive to think that the drug controls are not able to be subverted.

Lance Armstrong is the most regularly tested athletes in the world, If he doped all these years do you honestly think there would never have been a positive result announced by now?

Landis has a book out yes?

Landis's email says that he was told about the LA/UCI incident in 2002, he actually states that it was the first TOS after the test for EPO came out, so that was Sydney 2000 Olympics, and the first TOS after that was 2001 which LA won.

I think this just McQuaid trying to grasp at straws to discredit Landis.

I believe every word of Landis's statement to be honest.

"By way of information, the UCI would like to point out that Lance Armstrong did not participate in the 2002 Tour of Switzerland."

Maybe the explanation is that the drugs he took have so addled his brain that he can't remember whether these things happened or he imagined them, like he imagined Armstrong doing the 2002 Tour of Switzerland. Or is Armstrong's power so great that he can now rewrite the entry and finishing lists for events and all the attendant media coverage?