The same article had an interesting quote about LA not wanting to take a DNA last year to prove his innocence..... **** Pound tells the story....
“When the story about Lance Armstrong’s urine tests from 1999 showed up in the media last year I told him: Lance if you’re the superhero you say you are and the tests with EPO aren’t yours I don’t understand why you don’t do a DNA test that can prove your innocence. It’s much cheaper than filing lawsuits and paying expensive lawyers to help you. Believe me, I’m a lawyer and know what it costs. But he wasn’t interested in that,” says Pound.
“When the story about Lance Armstrong’s urine tests from 1999 showed up in the media last year I told him: Lance if you’re the superhero you say you are and the tests with EPO aren’t yours I don’t understand why you don’t do a DNA test that can prove your innocence. It’s much cheaper than filing lawsuits and paying expensive lawyers to help you. Believe me, I’m a lawyer and know what it costs. But he wasn’t interested in that,” says Pound.
cyclingheroes said:Interesting story about Mister Vrijman, the lawyer who wrote the UCI report. In yesterdays German newspaper "Die Welt" ( article is at http://www.welt.de/data/2006/07/13/956886.html ).
The German paper quotes the Danish paper "Politiken" (sorry i don't speak Danish..) and Vrijman admits that he suplied Katrin Krabbe (a German runner who was positive) with false doping kits in order to proof that the labatories are not working correct and to challenge their credibility. It worked: Krabbe won the case because Vrijman prooved that the labatory made mistakes in the procedure. He did this during his presidency of the Dutch national doping agency Necedo.
Interesting that a man like that wrote the "independent" report about Armstrong. It doesn't mean that Armstrong has doped, but it says a lot about how seriuos the UCI is in the fight against doping...
"Als Verfasser des entlastenden Berichts dient Emile Vrijman, ein Jurist aus den Niederlanden. Wie weit es allerdings mit dessen Unabhängigkeit her ist, enthüllte nun die dänische Zeitung "Politiken". Nicht nur, daß der Niederländer von der UCI für seine Dienste bezahlt wurde und ein alter Bekannter des ehemaligen UCI-Präsidenten und Armstrong-Fans Hein Verbruggen ist. In dem "Politiken"-Interview, aus dem die Wada dankbar Teile zitierte, gestand Vrijman zudem ein, 1992 der des Dopings beschuldigten deutschen Leichtathletin Katrin Krabbe aus der Bredouille geholfen zu haben.
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In seiner Funktion als Vorsitzender der Niederländischen Antidopingagentur Necedo besorgte Vrijman Krabbe damals auf Anfrage falsche sogenannte Doping-Kits, angeblich "um zu bewiesen, daß die Glaubwürdigkeit aller internationalen Antidopingstandards bedroht war, wenn es für Außenstehende möglich war, Katrin Krabbes Urinproben zu manipulieren". Der Plan ging auf, Krabbe wurde wegen "Fehlverhaltens bei den Antidopingprozeduren" nicht belangt."