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

[Nanci]

There's a good article about Floyd in the New York Times today.

http://tinyurl.com/jd2ya

Nice how the lab is going to close for vacation! How convenient. (They have agreed to run his test, though.) And nice how they claim to have not received his first request to test the B sample- and he has a five business day limit from the release of the A sample results to request that. Guilty or not- that lab seems very shady to me.

The article says that if the samples contain, what's the word, exogenous? testosterone, he can still try to prove that it came from say, sabotage or contaminated dietary supplements.

Here's an interesting thought from the article I linked to in the women/doping thread: (from 2004) I think the last sentence will apply to Floyd, too.

"Cycling even has its own Barry Bonds, in the person of American star Tyler Hamilton, whose Athens gold medal carries a giant question mark thanks to a positive test for an illegal blood transfusion—an old-fashioned doping technique that seems to have come back into vogue, ironically, because of more sophisticated tests for EPO, the endurance athlete's drug of choice. Hamilton is keeping his gold medal, thanks to a botched testing protocol, but he faces sanctions for a second positive test during the Tour of Spain. Like Bonds, Hamilton insists that he's innocent despite a steaming mound of evidence to the contrary. (Unlike Bonds, however, Hamilton is widely regarded as a nice guy, which is why many in cycling continue to believe him.)"

[alpinerabbit]

Insert cyclist of choice.... I wasn't gonna add "Mr. Landis", but in a few days....