Tuesday, September 12, 2006

 

He Just May Not Be Guilty, And By ‘Not Guilty’ I Mean In That John And Patsy Ramsey Kind Of Not Guilty

I really, really want Floyd Landis’ piss to be clean, not because of some sort of sick, German fetish, but because he’s one of my favorite riders. Oh, and just to piss off the French again.
Anyway there’s been some pretty heavy musings about the mishandling of his urine tests as of late, of course very few folks outside of the cycling community are aware of it- I mean God forbid the media pick someone up after they pre-maturely kick him to the curb.
Now this comes from FoxNews so Christ only knows how reliable this is, but none the less-

NEW YORK — The attorney for Floyd Landis is questioning the accuracy of the positive testosterone tests attributed to the Tour de France winner and asking that doping charges be dismissed.
In a letter sent to the
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, attorney Howard Jacobs disputed the accuracy of the carbon isotope ratio tests performed on Landis' urine sample at a lab in France.
Jacobs also argued the analysis of a different test, the testosterone-epitestosterone analysis, "is replete with fundamental, gross errors," including mismatched sample code numbers. Jacobs said the positive finding on the backup 'B' sample came from a sample number not assigned to Landis.
"It's incredibly sloppy" work, Jacobs said Monday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It has to make you wonder about the accuracy of the work."
Both Landis and USADA had representatives at the testing of the 'B' sample.
USADA general counsel Travis Tygart said the doping agency couldn't comment on specific cases but noted it is not unusual for athletes and their attorneys to seek dismissal of cases.

Comments:
Could this whole sorry mess be caused by some goofy geopolitical game? And are the French above such sillyness?
 
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