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Commentary: Cleared or not, Landis is a loser
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----------------------------------------------------------- By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Columnist Only one thing was proven beyond a reasonable doubt during Floyd Landis' appeal hearing over the last two weeks. Professional bicycle racing is a filthy sport and, in a perfect world, the Tour de France would go away and never come back. Certainly there is no reason for anyone to watch cycling's premier event with any faith that it is clean. Here's all you really need to know. Landis and his attorneys may succeed in discrediting the technicians in the French lab that produced his positive tests for synthetic testosterone, but they will never be able to succeed in winning back Landis' reputation. Whether he cheated to win last year's Tour is almost beside the point now that we've seen what he'll stoop to in order to win his case. Most of the testimony over the nine-day appeal hearing centered on the science of mass spectrometry and the procedures followed by the French national lab. No matter how the three-person panel of arbitrators rules - and that could take as long as 30 days - there is a fatal flaw in the Landis camp's approach. From the moment news of his positive test broke last summer, Landis has acted like a guilty man. The most egregious example of that was the episode involving Greg LeMond last week. It was shocking, sensationalistic stuff. LeMond testified that he received a menacing phone call the night before he took the stand, that the caller pretended to be the relative who sexually molested LeMond when he was a boy. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Read it at http://www.philly.com/inquirer/sport... _a_loser.html J. Spaceman |
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Commentary: Cleared or not, Landis is a loser
Jason Spaceman wrote:
By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Columnist Professional bicycle racing is a filthy sport and, in a perfect world, the Tour de France would go away and never come back. Certainly there is no reason for anyone to watch cycling's premier event with any faith that it is clean. In a perfect world hypocrites like this guy would suffer from spontaneous combustion or be condemned to go on a hunting trip with Cheney. |
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Commentary: Cleared or not, Landis is a loser
"Donald Munro" wrote in message . com... Jason Spaceman wrote: By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Columnist Professional bicycle racing is a filthy sport and, in a perfect world, the Tour de France would go away and never come back. Certainly there is no reason for anyone to watch cycling's premier event with any faith that it is clean. In a perfect world hypocrites like this guy would suffer from spontaneous combustion or be condemned to go on a hunting trip with Cheney. ummm.... 'Scuze me, but IF you want the world to believe in your innocence, you don't start the Tour by announcing that you have a severely arthritic hip that you'll have replaced as soon as the race is over, then go eleven minutes down in ONE day, then come back the next day and turn in a performance that looks like you've turned in your team bike for a Harley, and expect no one to believe a lab test that shows synthetic testosterone. There IS a crediblity gap here somewhere. I hate what the directeurs sportif and trainers have done to cycling with their doping. I have known cyclists who were doped without their knowing it because the team honchos came to them with "vitamins" they needed. All of the cycling governing agencies are going after the wrong people when they go after the athletes. NO athlete can do this stuff alone. Then when the acts are so flagrant that they leave blood bags behind for someone to find and test? Tours de Mafia. Caroline |
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Commentary: Cleared or not, Landis is a loser
Jason Spaceman wrote:
By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Columnist Professional bicycle racing is a filthy sport and, in a perfect world, the Tour de France would go away and never come back. Certainly there is no reason for anyone to watch cycling's premier event with any faith that it is clean. Donald Munro wrote: In a perfect world hypocrites like this guy would suffer from spontaneous combustion or be condemned to go on a hunting trip with Cheney. Caroline wrote: There IS a crediblity gap here somewhere. The guys a hypocrite because he assumes cycling is the only "filthy sport". The only difference between the so called filthy sport and the "clean sports" he normally covers (such as super squeaky-clean American football which appears to be his speciality (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/colum...phil_sheridan/) is cycling authorities do not cover up, or at least they're don't have enough money to cover up properly. Anyway he's from Philadelphia. |
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Commentary: Cleared or not, Landis is a loser
On May 25, 5:34 am, "Caroline" wrote:
I hate what the directeurs sportif and trainers have done to cycling with their doping. I have known cyclists who were doped without their knowing it because the team honchos came to them with "vitamins" they needed. All of the cycling governing agencies are going after the wrong people when they go after the athletes. dumbass, that babe in the woods act is bull****. this is aldag's quote : "About four of us sat on the curb during one of the Grand Tours," began Aldag, referring to his 1994 season. "We had been totally dropped and couldn't keep up. What could we do? I started thinking about doping and asked around." |
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Commentary: Cleared or not, Landis is a loser
"Donald Munro" wrote in message
news:4656b77d$0$31223 Caroline wrote: Anyway he's from Philadelphia. Ahhh... Well, you left that part out! Caroline Who's not from Phillyadel[phia, but likes their steak sandwiches. |
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Commentary: Cleared or not, Landis is a loser
wrote in message
oups.com... On May 25, 5:34 am, "Caroline" wrote: I hate what the directeurs sportif and trainers have done to cycling with their doping. I have known cyclists who were doped without their knowing it because the team honchos came to them with "vitamins" they needed. All of the cycling governing agencies are going after the wrong people when they go after the athletes. dumbass, that babe in the woods act is bull****. this is aldag's quote : "About four of us sat on the curb during one of the Grand Tours," began Aldag, referring to his 1994 season. "We had been totally dropped and couldn't keep up. What could we do? I started thinking about doping and asked around." So he was too damned stupid to think, "Man, something's gotta be wrong with my training program..." The bottom line here, in my opinion, is that doping could NOT get to where it is today through athletes alone. Now, are there lazy people who want to win the Tour without working? You betcha! And there always will be. But I don't know of any doping shops where you have to show your UCI or USCF or whatever federation license in order to buy their goods. And I do know cyclists who were pushed into it by their team's trainers and coaches. Once a trainer or a coach is proven to have promoted or assisted or facilitated doping, that person should be banned from the sport for life. Caroline |
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Commentary: Cleared or not, Landis is a loser
Dans le message de news:nYA5i.8476$TU1.2500@trnddc07,
Caroline a réfléchi, et puis a déclaré : wrote in message oups.com... On May 25, 5:34 am, "Caroline" wrote: I hate what the directeurs sportif and trainers have done to cycling with their doping. I have known cyclists who were doped without their knowing it because the team honchos came to them with "vitamins" they needed. All of the cycling governing agencies are going after the wrong people when they go after the athletes. dumbass, that babe in the woods act is bull****. this is aldag's quote : "About four of us sat on the curb during one of the Grand Tours," began Aldag, referring to his 1994 season. "We had been totally dropped and couldn't keep up. What could we do? I started thinking about doping and asked around." So he was too damned stupid to think, "Man, something's gotta be wrong with my training program..." The bottom line here, in my opinion, is that doping could NOT get to where it is today through athletes alone. Now, are there lazy people who want to win the Tour without working? You betcha! And there always will be. But I don't know of any doping shops where you have to show your UCI or USCF or whatever federation license in order to buy their goods. And I do know cyclists who were pushed into it by their team's trainers and coaches. Once a trainer or a coach is proven to have promoted or assisted or facilitated doping, that person should be banned from the sport for life. Caroline Are you occasionally beset by a forgiveness and remediation mode, or is this you more or less always ? |
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Commentary: Cleared or not, Landis is a loser
On Fri, 25 May 2007 12:12:41 +0200, Donald Munro
wrote: Jason Spaceman wrote: By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Columnist Professional bicycle racing is a filthy sport and, in a perfect world, the Tour de France would go away and never come back. Certainly there is no reason for anyone to watch cycling's premier event with any faith that it is clean. Donald Munro wrote: In a perfect world hypocrites like this guy would suffer from spontaneous combustion or be condemned to go on a hunting trip with Cheney. Caroline wrote: There IS a crediblity gap here somewhere. The guys a hypocrite because he assumes cycling is the only "filthy sport". The only difference between the so called filthy sport and the "clean sports" he normally covers (such as super squeaky-clean American football which appears to be his speciality (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/colum...phil_sheridan/) is cycling authorities do not cover up, or at least they're don't have enough money to cover up properly. Not only do they not cover up, they wallow in it. Sort of joining this weird confessional fad by proxy. McQuade didn't dope but he wants to stand up and cry as he confesses like all the cool kids. Besides, lets just say that everybody is telling the truth .... Football with guys buying steroids from trainers who fetch them from foreign places is a hell of a lot "cleaner" than the Trainspotting like imagery DeCanio invokes from his Italian experience. Anyway he's from Philadelphia. Oh, ****. Nevermind. Ron |
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