i have to admit he looks guilty. it boggles the imagination to think landis would think he could gain benefit from a drug on stage 17, and then think he would get away with it when tested.
if i were him i think i would have helped the guy behind me to stay with me to the end and then let the other rider get the win for the stage as a way saying thanks for your help....and i won't get tested. THAT would make sense.
i am not sure what the 2nd place time was, but let's say he came in with another rider a minute later. that would have still put him in contention to win and he would NOT BE TESTED.
at this point, i can not accept that landis could be THAT stupid to dope and think he could chance being detected especially with the pre race ban of suspected dopers.
i will assume the test was correctly done, but i will also suspect that someone paid off the courier or somehow spiked his system. the problem is that EVEN IF he is innocent i think it will be impossible to prove it.
i wonder if a dna test was done to even prove if it was in fact his urine that was tested?
there is just no way this guy is going to get off. he is done. it is over...even if he is totally 100% innocent.
at this point he has painted himself into a corner if he did cheat. if he cheated and is saying he is innocent he also looks like a LIAR as well as a CHEAT.
i think the test for testosterone not his own is the capper on this case. however this is going to drag out for months and maybe even years.
for sure it will never be forgotten.
i am amazed that other riders are not speaking out much on this issue. i can understand riders sticking together, but a few annonymous interviews with other riders would be interesting to read.
i have wondered if he thought he took so little of the testosterone that it would be undetected if he drink gallons of water along the route. i do note that he was drinking and drinking and surely made a couple three pit stops along the way to relieve himself. maybe he thought he could pee it out of his system along the way.
but, again this whole thing just seems way way too illogical. he is either the most stupid tour rider in modern history or the one most set up by someone.
tucsonguy
if i were him i think i would have helped the guy behind me to stay with me to the end and then let the other rider get the win for the stage as a way saying thanks for your help....and i won't get tested. THAT would make sense.
i am not sure what the 2nd place time was, but let's say he came in with another rider a minute later. that would have still put him in contention to win and he would NOT BE TESTED.
at this point, i can not accept that landis could be THAT stupid to dope and think he could chance being detected especially with the pre race ban of suspected dopers.
i will assume the test was correctly done, but i will also suspect that someone paid off the courier or somehow spiked his system. the problem is that EVEN IF he is innocent i think it will be impossible to prove it.
i wonder if a dna test was done to even prove if it was in fact his urine that was tested?
there is just no way this guy is going to get off. he is done. it is over...even if he is totally 100% innocent.
at this point he has painted himself into a corner if he did cheat. if he cheated and is saying he is innocent he also looks like a LIAR as well as a CHEAT.
i think the test for testosterone not his own is the capper on this case. however this is going to drag out for months and maybe even years.
for sure it will never be forgotten.
i am amazed that other riders are not speaking out much on this issue. i can understand riders sticking together, but a few annonymous interviews with other riders would be interesting to read.
i have wondered if he thought he took so little of the testosterone that it would be undetected if he drink gallons of water along the route. i do note that he was drinking and drinking and surely made a couple three pit stops along the way to relieve himself. maybe he thought he could pee it out of his system along the way.
but, again this whole thing just seems way way too illogical. he is either the most stupid tour rider in modern history or the one most set up by someone.
tucsonguy