The latest statement from Floyd

[Kalidurga]

This reader comment from over at bicycling.com's Boulder Report makes some really good points (bolded):

I can't stand the thin line between glory and humiliation in this sport. I also can't stand the hypocrisy. If everyone dopes, then Landis is the winner. Maybe the other riders should say that.

I don't know the answer to cleaning up the sport. I'm sure they'd all like to ride clean. But after Tyler and now Floyd, whether or not Landis' B sample is positive or negative, I'm not watching any more cycling. Why should I invest time and emotion in a sport only to see the people I'd been cheering for publicly destroyed and humiliated? That's sickening. It's worse than the prospect of someone doping, especially if they're all doping.

No one knows what to believe any more. The race organizers are the worst--they profit from the riders, and then turn on them when it's convenient.

They need to make radical changes in the sport. Shorten the stages of the tour. Give amnesty to everyone and start fresh. Test everyone at the beginning of the race.

I agree with a lot of that. If the entire peloton is doping and Floyd is just one of many, as the media would lead us to believe, then he still won fairly. If Floyd's clean, though, then his Stage 17 win is even more impressive, considering he beat all of his supposedly doped fellow riders.

I also think that, at this point, this entire situation has given a worse black eye to WADA and the UCI than it has to Floyd. Floyd still has my sympathy, but **** Pound and Pat McQuaid... Well, I'd say what I think of them, but I don't want to use that kind of language this early in the morning (which is funny, considering the forum seems to automatically edit the diminutive of Richard Pound's name).

[ChainsOflove]

If they totally take Floyd down, I'm done with UCI. I won't watch or support it.
I'll just follow u.s. and local. I am very bummed out about all this.