I hadn’t really noticed this guy Landis before. Evidently one of those “everybody does it” kind of rat finks. With his record, his credibility is zero.
I use to really like Floyd BUT he screwed up- Cheated. Lance has been tested more than any human and todays result shows he is in great condition. Floyd just may have given Lance some added motivation.
I have thought and said that LA was different, because he was able to remold his body specifically for cycling, after he went through his cancer treatments. I have seen such a thing before, a friend who had, through illness, lost 50 lbs, gained back 80 lbs of solid muscle because his body was in a super anabolic state (naturally).. but anyways, if it turns out that LA actually DID do stuff, I wont be surprised.
And for those who talk about all the testing done, the REAL money in drugs for athletes is reserved for the chemists who can figure out ways to MASK the usage of the PED. I used to know such a guy, via the internet that is.. was arrested in a national story...
You have to ask yourself, How does Landis have NEW allegations?
I mean, even if you presumed Landis would ever tell the truth (which i don’t, not after defending him when he insisted he was innocent, and being burned when he finally confessed), how can he have NEW allegations about what happened years ago?
My point: Landis came out last year and made claims against Armstrong. So, why didn’t he reveal THESE allegations at that point? Why did he hide some of the things he knew, once he was “telling all”?
It’s bad enough to be asked to believe that a known liar is now “coming clean”. But to be asked to believe, 6 months later, that he really DIDN’T ‘come clean’ before, but NOW is “coming clean”, is too much to bear.
I expect that every 4 months, Landis will tell us MORE things that Armstrong and others did, in hopes of keeping his name in the spotlight. How else can you explain why Landis didn’t tell us these new allegations months ago, except that he is making them up to get in the news?
After every stage of every professional bike race, the winner and random riders are tested by the race organizers and local jurisdiction legal authorities (at least in Europe). Given the prize money from even a single stage win, a positive drug test is equivalent to grand theft. LA has been on the French top 10 list for so long that I think he is probably the most tested individual in the world (you realize that France hasn't had a TdF winner in 20+ years?!)
Is it possible that LA has doped himself to win - I cannot (and neither can anyone else) prove a negative. Doping is a game of cat&mouse with the testing always a step behind the latest doping ability. However, even with the supposed positive test on a multi-year old LA blood test, there have been sufficient reasonable doubts about the honesty of the testers and the testing conditions to allow a first year law student to get it thrown out of any unbiased court!
A final quick statement about LA. he first won the Tour in 1999 when his US Postal Team was poor and barely in the top class of teams. 1999 was the year when Ulrich and Pantani were serving drug suspensions and so there was strong testing even then by the race itself. I cannot, myself, believe that he could do all of this for this long without being detected.