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The Floyd Landis freak show

Been following the Floyd Landis testosterone doping arbitration hearing? Boy, have you been missing some weird shit.

Let me bring you up to speed.

1) July, 2006: Floyd Landis overcomes a devastating hip injury to win the Tour de France. Days later, one of his blood tests comes up positive for testosterone doping, throwing his victory into question. Landis offers various lame excuses, and a few potentially accurate conspiracy theories involving the French and tainted blood samples.

Lame? What’s lame is how the unqualified Ms. Waage deems herself worthy to judge. She last comments in August about Floyd and the Tour de France, equating his guilt with the proven and admitted guilt (as well as long rap sheet of similar indiscretions) of a former Commander in Chief. Has she ever heard about “innocent until proven guilty”?

Let’s see…

1. the French labs won’t let a Landis representative observe the B-sample testing.
2. Nobody will allow tests to be done at the UCLA labs.
3. There is very good science backing up the Landis argument regarding testing errors.
4. The witnesses offered by the prosecution have been unreliable and to have cut deals for themselves. That shouldn’t be necessary if this was a clean case.

The only thing that is lame about this hearing is that Landis was tried and convicted in the court of public opinion before he had his day in court.