This looks bad for Floyd.......

[mimitabby]

RoadRaven
what did Lance say about this?

the test to check the carbon isotope in the testosterone takes 2 weeks..
so they do not have the answer to that one yet, right?

[RoadRaven]

mimi... I was just referring to the way in which Armstrong is responding to media questions about Landis...

From memory, Armstrong didn't say boo in support/defence of Tyler Hamilton whom he also rode with for a while in Discovery..

For example, on Larry King Live...

"I thought it was unlike anything I'd ever seen in cycling and I mean that in a good way. I thought it was -- I thought he was tough. I thought the guys behind, who were chasing him, didn't do a great job but he showed a lot of heart and gut and determination that day."

"If we ever suspected anything, if there was suspicious behavior or anything to lead us to believe he was a cheater, then we would have parted ways long before we did. And when he did leave he left for a better offer from another team and we had to respect that."

"But above and beyond everything else he was -- he was one of the toughest young kids that I'd ever come across and we could see that. I mean we'd bring the kids to training camp and I was trying to get fit and trying to win a Tour and you had this young kid with this incredible tough attitude that was challenging me on every hill and at every opportunity. So, we knew then that he was -- he was our kind of guy and he was a tough bike rider."

[Cassandra_Cain]

I don't pretend to understand all the science, tests, and details - biology wasn't my subject.

So let me pose this....if a guy has naturally high testosterone, then wouldn't it always be higher than 'normal/average'? Rather than just spike up at some odd moment? Wouldn't said rider with high testosterone always or at least most of the time, test above the 4:1 ratio they've established?

Also, I'm reading the Landis and his lawyers are saying they don't expect the B sample to be any different than the A sample. I'm inferring if that's the case then he will lose the TDF title and possibly prompt a long, drawn-out appeal process.

The biggest loser in all this, as Oscar Pereiro mentioned a few days ago, has to be the entire sport of cycling.