Verdict is in on Landis

[maillotpois]

Read the dissent:

http://ia341242.us.archive.org/0/ite...rd20-09-07.pdf

[snapdragen]

Read the dissent:

http://ia341242.us.archive.org/0/ite...rd20-09-07.pdf

Wow.

I do hope he appeals. (He can appeal, right?)

[maillotpois]

I think he can appeal to the Court for Arbitration in Sport.

[Skierchickie]

Sigh......

I wanna believe.....sigh......

I think I'll just naively keep believing it was all a mistake, and he didn't really do it, and hang on to the hope there there are true sports heroes out there, in the sports I care about.

[PinkBike]

great dissenting report, it's all the things that are in his book.

i too think he was falsely convicted. forget all the errors in the procedures and the handling and the privacy issues and the WADA rules against testifying negatively, yadayadayada, forget ALL THAT and you STILL have the fact that other (read: better) labs would not have called his test positive.

i believe him. i know i am a little gullible, i believed tyler until the puerta affair brought him up again.

but after reading his book, and just the common sense of it - that testosterone does not work overnight so (a) why would he do it for one stage or (b) why wasn't it in any of his other tests? - i totally think he is innocent.

i hope he gets a fair shake on appeal. but if the process for appeal is anything like the process for the testing - the same lab that tests the A sample also tests the B sample - why would i expect this process to have any kind of non-bias against the athlete? or any accountability for poor performance?

and why does the 2-year ban commence in january 2007 when he hasnt been able to race since july 2006?

[Jo-n-NY]

I believe in everything you said Pinkbike. Floyd got a raw deal here, although I am not surprised. Why would the USADA want to ruin their reputation of finding all the cases brought to them concluding with "guilty".

I have ZERO faith in USADA & WADA even before this all began. It would be nice for someone to dissect them.

~ JoAnn

[amymisk]

I am saddened by the verdict because I believe Floyd as well. I am not sure how the arbitration court can state that one test is flawed, inaccurate and yet consider the second, more complicated test on the same sample accurate.

I hope Floyd as the funds to appeal; however, I don't think the athlete has a fair chance in this system. The system is designed to support the WADA and USADA. It is not a just and fair system.

Grog-your story is truly funny.

I will continue to support Floyd and procycling.