Not so good news (Armstrong)...

[Owlie]

I like these 2 paragraphs. A graduate student one of the leading blood researchers.

Evidence suggests that Lance Armstrong used blood doping during the Tour de France, says one of Denmark’s leading blood researchers, Jakob Mørkebjerg from Bispebjerg Hospital, to DR Sport after he saw American’s blood values.

“What we know from our research is that the hard work as a Tour de France will cause a marked decrease of these blood values, and it seems this did not happen in Lance Armstrong,” says Mørkebjerg, who has just completed a PhD thesis on blood doping.

Okay, that's just funny. I'd like to know which planet they're living on, where a newly-minted PhD is considered an expert on anything.

[Cataboo]

I suppose if its a small field and there's not many people in it, he can be an expert.

I'm not saying that newly minted phds are not really knowledgeable, cause I was one once... but....

[Zen]

While I wouldn't consider him an expert based on time in the field, sometimes fresh eyes see things that others overlook.

This case is somewhat of an example.

[Cataboo]

While I wouldn't consider him an expert based on time in the field, sometimes fresh eyes see things that others overlook.

This case is somewhat of an example.

Nah, that's a case of where they actually got 5 experts in and realized that whoever decided that it was arson to begin with was wrong. Not sure what kind of defense attorneys he had to begin with though.

[ny biker]

There's nothing on velonews.com about this, and those guys can make a story out of someone's twitter feed when they think it's important. Also nothing on cyclingenews.com. Googling "armstrong blood" brings up links to cycling forums (like this one) where the original article is being discussed.

So either the cycling news organizations are taking their time to investigate, or they're not considering it worthy of repeating.

[li10up]

...a small fish in a big pond trying to make a name for himself...

[kenyonchris]

The tech who released the data should be fired for releasing the data. And the journalist who wrote the article is just trying to make a buck off something mundane. Is this what we call yellow journalism?

Yellow Jersey-ism

[Owlie]

Yellow Jersey-ism

I was waiting for someone to say that.

[tctrek]

It's just a crock of you-know-what for publicity sake. They never get tired of trying to pin this on him, even after all these years of testing where they could never find anything.

[emily_in_nc]

Yellow Jersey-ism

Love that!

[Triskeliongirl]

This is nothing. There are too many reasons for fluctuations in hematocrit levels to be able to make any definitive conclusions. His were all in the normal range, so to just say they might have been expected to go down over the timecourse of the race is nothing.

[Cataboo]

This is nothing. There are too many reasons for fluctuations in hematocrit levels to be able to make any definitive conclusions. His were all in the normal range, so to just say they might have been expected to go down over the timecourse of the race is nothing.

But you aren't a LEADING BLOOD RESEARCHER.

[Triskeliongirl]

But you aren't a LEADING BLOOD RESEARCHER.

No, I am a professor of biochemistry at a major medical center with 25 years of research experience..........

[Cataboo]

No, I am a professor of biochemistry at a major medical center with 25 years of research experience..........

Sorry, I should put smiley faces on my posts to indicate when I am not being serious.

[li10up]

Sorry, I should put smiley faces on my posts to indicate when I am not being serious.

I knew you were kidding.....and it was funny!