The latest on Floyd

[Kalidurga]

velonews.com: Landis attorney seeks dismissal

'Floyd Landis's attorney Howard Jacobs said Wednesday that he intends to request the dismissal of the doping case against client based on "inconsistencies in the testing protocol and methodology" used to show that the 2006 Tour de France was positive for testosterone...

... In a press release issued Friday, Jacobs's office noted that upon "review of 370 pages of documentation provided by the LNDD laboratory at Chatenay-Malabry, Jacobs and a team of scientific experts have found inconsistencies in the testing protocol and methodology that support Landis' innocence. Jacobs received the official document package on August 31."

"In our review of the documents detailing the tests on both the ‘A' and ‘B' sample, we have found evidence that supports our request for USADA to drop the doping charges against Landis," said Jacobs. "While I cannot comment on the full details of our findings, we now have the foundation for a very strong defense should the case proceed to arbitration." '

I just can't wait to see how Diminutive-for-Richard Pound responds to this...

[dobielover1]

I wonder what the inconsistencies are.

I'm still hopeful that he'll beat this.

[emily_in_nc]

I'm still hopeful that he'll beat this.

What she said!

~Emily

[mimitabby]

me too. Talk about a broken heart! I hope the attorneys get to the bottom of it.

[latelatebloomer]

He asked us to keep the faith and I'm keeping it. I have heard so many smart people say that something about this just ain't right.

[Xrayted]

I'm from Floyd's neck of the woods and all of us still have our signs up in support for him. Our LBS - Green Mountain Cyclery in Ephrata, PA (my hometown) - still has everyone's well wishes written all over the front windows. I truly hope he beats this but I think it is going to be one heck of an uphill battle for him. All of us around here still consider him the winner.

[Nanci]

So if they dismiss the doping charges, does he get his win back?

[Kalidurga]

As far as I know, they haven't taken his win away yet. Until all the legal stuff is over he's officially still the TdF winner, in spite of what D**k Pound and Oscar Pereiro say.

[latelatebloomer]

By the way, the story is posted on Floyd's website, www.floydlandis.com, and you can post comments. I think there are already about 100, almost entirely supportive.

[alpinerabbit]

According to German newspaper "Die Welt", there were 13 positive samples at the Tour de France. 12 had a therapeutic exemption.

http://www.welt.de/data/2006/09/09/1028975.html

Ou of 105 riders tested at the Tour, 60 had some form of exemption.


The only one who did not have an exemption was Landis. Was this just plain stoopid?

[SouthernBelle]

It was my understanding that Floyd did have an exemption for his cortisone injections.

[DDH]

I hope they clear this up, but I also hope that they clear it up with a reasonable explanation and not just leave it hanging. Innocent or not, because of everything that has happened, unless there is definitive proof, he will still have that hanging over his head.
I think that is sad, because what happened to innocent until proven guilty, but it's just the way things will be unless they give proof of his innocence.

[mimitabby]

thanks for letting us know his website is back up.