I guess this news really isn't shocking, especially as FL and his legal team said they expected a positive B sample.

I'm afraid I don't think FL being a nice guy or seeming sincere is enough for me. There is no nicer, down-to-earth, sweet guy in the pro circuit than Tyler Hamilton. There's no way such a nice rider like that, with his bouncy golden retrievers, and pretty wife could have cheated right? Yet he did, although his denials remain to the day.

So I don't know whether FL cheated or not - maybe, maybe not. They keep throwing out possible explanations, and at some point it starts sounding a bit hokey - beer, dehydration, cortisone shot, the full moon...

What I do know is that none of the other riders, all tremendous athletes like FL, did not fail those tests.

I'd like to see this resolved conclusively one way or another - guilty or innocent - I think the entire sport suffers greatly the longer this goes on.