Cyclist Vinokourov hires Floyd Landis' lawyer in Tour doping case

[mal]

Cyclist Vinokourov hires Floyd Landis' lawyer in Tour doping case

July 27, 2007

AP - Jul 24, 12:55 pm EDT
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Alexandre Vinokourov has hired Floyd Landis'
lawyer to defend him on blood doping charges that resulted in his ejection
from the Tour de France.

Attorney Maurice Suh was in France on Friday and unavailable for
comment, but his Los Angeles office said he was on the case for Vinokourov,
who has denied doping.

"I can confirm we do represent Vinokourov," said Pearl Piatt,
spokeswoman for the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm.

Suh, the former deputy mayor of Homeland Security and Public Safety
for Los Angeles, joined the law firm as a partner last October. He was
previously deputy chief of the public corruption and government fraud unit
of the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.

ESPN.com, which first reported the news, also reported Howard Jacobs,
another Landis attorney, was working on the case for Vinokourov, who tested
positive for a banned blood transfusion. Telephone and e-mail messages to
Jacobs weren't immediately returned Friday.

Suh and Jacobs are defending 2006 Tour champion Landis against charges
that he tested positive for synthetic testosterone after the 17th stage of
last year's Tour. Landis, who faces a two-year ban and the loss of his Tour
title, has maintained his innocence and is awaiting a decision from a panel
of arbitrators.

Vinokourov, a pre-race favorite to win the Tour, and his Astana team
were forced out of the Tour on Tuesday.

 

[Crescentius Vespasianus]

>
> LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Alexandre Vinokourov has hired Floyd Landis'
> lawyer to defend him on blood doping charges that resulted in his ejection
> from the Tour de France.
>
> Attorney Maurice Suh was in France on Friday and unavailable for
> comment, but his Los Angeles office said he was on the case for
Vinokourov,
> who has denied doping.
>
> "I can confirm we do represent Vinokourov," said Pearl Piatt,
> spokeswoman for the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm.
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It's amazing how fast pro-cycling is self-destructing, almost hourly reports
of just not another brick coming out of the wall, but whole sections of the
wall falling down. I doubt this sport will survive the summer. I think the
future is cycling exhibitions, kind of like the Harlem Globetrotters, until
the new LeMond standards are implemented. I would go further than LeMond
and erase all the Tour results after LeMonds last Tour victory, and start
fresh in 2009.

 

[datakoll]

On Jul 27, 8:05 pm, "Crescentius Vespasianus" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Alexandre Vinokourov has hired Floyd Landis'
> > lawyer to defend him on blood doping charges that resulted in his ejection
> > from the Tour de France.
>
> > Attorney Maurice Suh was in France on Friday and unavailable for
> > comment, but his Los Angeles office said he was on the case for
> Vinokourov,
> > who has denied doping.
>
> > "I can confirm we do represent Vinokourov," said Pearl Piatt,
> > spokeswoman for the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm.
>
> --------------
> It's amazing how fast pro-cycling is self-destructing, almost hourly reports
> of just not another brick coming out of the wall, but whole sections of the
> wall falling down. I doubt this sport will survive the summer. I think the
> future is cycling exhibitions, kind of like the Harlem Globetrotters, until
> the new LeMond standards are implemented. I would go further than LeMond
> and erase all the Tour results after LeMonds last Tour victory, and start
> fresh in 2009.

befoer yawl get worked up about this consider the need for expensive
lawyers is inverse to the availability and quality of evidence
supporting your claims against your adversary's claims.
obviously if I have 4 neutral and reliable witnesses holding down
steady jobs ad nauseum to allege I was in Bayonne on the 4th not
Tuscany where the crime occured then 5 mill for a defense is over kill
unless the pot is worth 25 mill as a sure thing.
you see, if your evidence proves (this is generally USA law for normal
folk) your case then what you do is go to court to figure what the
damages are worth.
The real deal here is an athlete's effective competitive life-time
lost in unjustified sanction.
the real deal is also the crowd reaction as a lynch mob participating
in a holy war against? flooding the court room.
rational logical outcomes are not necessarily on the horizon.
trautig/ligget's illogical and successful pandering to an audience
incapable of adding 2+2 but more than capable of repeating nusurey
rhymes over and over until the rhymes are real is the accused's real
problem.
It was and is Gore's problem. still is after...

 

[Carl Sundquist]

"mal" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Cyclist Vinokourov hires Floyd Landis' lawyer in Tour doping case
>
> July 27, 2007
> AP - Jul 24, 12:55 pm EDT
> More Photos
>
> LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Alexandre Vinokourov has hired Floyd Landis'
> lawyer to defend him on blood doping charges that resulted in his ejection
> from the Tour de France.


Which of Vino's entourage will be imitating "Uncle Ron"?

 

[Simon Brooke]

in message <[email protected]>,
Crescentius Vespasianus ('[email protected]') wrote:

> I would go further than LeMond
> and erase all the Tour results after LeMonds last Tour victory, and start
> fresh in 2009.

Shouldn't you erase all Tour results since 1904?

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Morning had broken, and there was nothing left for us to do
but pick up the pieces.