On Dec 18, 9:34 am, "
[email protected]" <
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wrote:
> On Dec 18, 11:01 am, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > With any luck at all if the ADA is defeated on appeal Floyd will also
> > win the right to sue for millions of dollars both the French lab and
> > the USADA.
>
> So you also agree that the ASO should sue riders that are found guilty
> of doping to collect damages to the value of their franchise they've
> suffered as a result ?
Dumbass,
USADA, WADA, and Chateney-Malabry are quasi-governmental
agencies and arguably have a duty of care which some
shyster lawyer could argue has been breached. There is
a difference between Fraud suing USADA and ASO suing, say,
Vino, or Telekom suing Sinkabitch. (I think a team
whose sponsor disappears is hurt more than ASO is hurt by
the riders. If no one shows up to watch the Tour next July,
you ccan tell me I was wrong.) That said, although
I'd kind of like to see Fraud beat the rap, I wouldn't
like to see him getting millions of bucks out of USADA for
doing what they are more or less chartered to do.
In an ideal world, the outcome of this fiasco would be
better practices at the labs rather than financial damages.
However, that is unlikely to happen. Both because there
is no real incentive for the labs to become un-sloppy,
and because they can't admit there's a sloppiness
problem or they're afraid they'll lose cases. That's
what happens when you make science experiments serve
as judicial prosecutions. Look at all the prosecutors
who won't drop charges even after it's been shown that
crime labs (for real crimes) relied on actually faked
or unreliable evidence (a stepp beyond random LNDD
sloppiness).
Ben