I heard about this today while I was spinning at the gym. Nutty. I heard some new stuff has come back up for poor Tyler as well... I'm realy out of the loop

ya read about that too.

don't forget I started another site for filing these types of stories ;), I'm pulling the latest headlines onto the Trifuel home page.
http://www.endurancereport.com/

Tyler was suspended until cleared of the Operation crap. Weird cause he just came off 2 years suspension. When does his involvement date back too? Was he doping during his suspension?

No Giro for him. bummer!

I would venture to say that Lance was the most tested athlete in the world during his reign over professional cycling. Everything, to my knowledge, came back clean. Although the French have always tried to pin stuff on him.

Whatever, the french were caught red handed trying to mess with Lance's test to show that he was doping when he wasn't. This whole agency is so currupt and anti-american it's retarded. I am not going to even worry about it because there are no officials in the cycling world that are clean.

Basso and Ullrich never tested positive. I bet you they have been tested a lot too. They just happened to go to the wrong doctor.

I did plenty of time as a monitor for drug testing in the military and don't understand the confusion. You test the urine or blood and it's either hot or not. Can international cycling not get a competent neutral party to perform this task? Geez.

From my experience you're found guilty and suffer the consequences rather fast. These things shouldn't drag out forever.

But as long as you're using an allegedly biased testing lab, all bets are off.

Good points. Sometimes I wonder if LeMond or Indurain were the last, great, clean riders.

F#%K the french. Boycott france. only things good that ever came out of france is bikinis and crepes.

Saw that too--it's the main article on cnn.com right now as well. Just crazy. I don't know what role Landis may have had, but it's pretty clear that his business manager is a disgusting, and quite stupid, human being.

The irony is that LeMond's testimony did not have to be all that damaging. He never said that Landis admitted doping to him, so a good attorney might have spun the meaning of Landis's alleged comments all sorts of ways. (In addition, I would have thought there was an argument that LeMond's testimony was inadmissible hearsay, but that might be a stretch and I don't know if the arbitration hearing follows standard rules of evidence or not).

Since Landis basically looks like or is a liar, who would believe him if he did give up Lance? Unless he has physical evidence, it would look like he was lieing to get a lesser suspension.

dv

Witness tampering...not good.
But here is what I thought was interesting..it's what we in Washington call a "Non-denial,denial." He doesn't deny using...just that it would hurt alot of people..
"I would hope and encourage you to come clean," LeMond said he told Landis.
"What good would that do," LeMond said Landis replied. "If I did, it would destroy a lot of my friends and hurt a lot of people." (thanks to abc news)

On a side note...I know many Euros including French...It's funny... I never hear them say things like "F*** Americans!" even though they disagree with our current Middle Eastern Situation. Disagree with with the agency or the lab...but to slam a nation for drug test results...tsk,tsk. I kindly remind folks, as I seem to have to from time to time...If it wern't for the French you'd be playing cricket ( a fine game ,actually) and having tea right about now (EST)

NOW you're talking about my family! ;)