So, I feel like I am getting a grip on the legal perspective of the Landis case. I am, also, beginning to understand UCI anti-doping rules (including possible violations in thier reporting standards. However, I still don’t know the medical side of it. Would someone please answer these questions?
1. Is it true that testosterone does not help a riders’ performance in stage races. This is an argument that I seen reported from respectable sources on the web. In fact, it might even hurt it because it could cause his body to retain water.
2. If Landis truly took something to improve his performance, couldn’t he have chosen at least twenty better illegal substances?
3. Does official report does not mention the existence of exogenesis testosterone. I heard (again on the web) that it did not.
4. How is it possible that a rider can test positive for testosterone one day and not two days later? As a college athlete, when I took a test, they told me that they could detect artificial testosterone for several weeks.
5. Is the ratio test used to test Landis’s sample reliable? I have heard from numerous sources, most recently Paul S., that it is not.
6. Finally, do any technologies exist that would lead Floyd to believe that he could take exogenesis testosterone without detection?
1. Is it true that testosterone does not help a riders’ performance in stage races. This is an argument that I seen reported from respectable sources on the web. In fact, it might even hurt it because it could cause his body to retain water.
2. If Landis truly took something to improve his performance, couldn’t he have chosen at least twenty better illegal substances?
3. Does official report does not mention the existence of exogenesis testosterone. I heard (again on the web) that it did not.
4. How is it possible that a rider can test positive for testosterone one day and not two days later? As a college athlete, when I took a test, they told me that they could detect artificial testosterone for several weeks.
5. Is the ratio test used to test Landis’s sample reliable? I have heard from numerous sources, most recently Paul S., that it is not.
6. Finally, do any technologies exist that would lead Floyd to believe that he could take exogenesis testosterone without detection?