poor FLandis
But folks, the sounds he makes strike a chord of ... something tainted.
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To imagine your own reactions in place of someone else's ... 'tis folly, I'm sure. But, how can I not resist the urge? If I had been accused of doping?
from the highest rafters would i stand and shout ~
i would scream, shake earth, quake with such an insult, so dishonored, that my rage would hold no bounds and would lash and thrash and seek out every measure of proof to squash unmercifully every iota of doubt.
i would be in blood lust.
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and yet, that is just me.
But when i hear Landis speak, and i examine his word choice, his inflection, his reflections upon it all ... i cannot help but feel ... the taint.
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What does it matter? and who am i to judge?
17 comments:
Huh. When I listened to it last night I heard a guy whose entire life is crumbling around him, whose mom got chased from her home, who is trying to imagine how he's going to get through the next week.
That "I'll say no..." comment, in print, sounds really lame. But hearing him say it, I sorta understand.
If it were me, and I did do it, I'd crack like humpty dumpty under this pressure. And I can kinda understand how someone who didn't do it would still crack. I mean if my mom calls in tears because the press won't get off the lawn because of me... that stuff's all gonna take it's toll.
Not everybody's a cold-hearted playa like you olaf.
And I'm not saying he didn't do it either. Just saying I took what I heard way differently.
who am i to judge?
Pantani's life ended after long years of Italian press hounding him...
Dope testing should be done in private without press leakage until everything is checked out...bummer.
I hear fear in the voice of a man who has just been accused in front of the Spanish Inquisition and is now trying to figure out how to avoid getting burned at the stake.
Maybe he's afraid because he's guilty or maybe he's afraid because he's watching all the benefits of winning The Tour evaporate before his eyes - guilty or not.
damn shame, any way you cut it.
anyone know if a carbon isotope test has been run yet? Lemond (on NBC this am) seemed to say it had been run and indicated a non-natural source of testosterone.
Pretty neat test, turns out synthetic testosterone has a lower c13/c12 ratio then the natural version because its extracted from yams ( generally, the higher in the food chain you are the higher your c13/c12 ratio)
jewford's big brain throwin out the stuff again.
interesting that Lemond brings that up...
What, you don't think Lemond actually has a carbon-isotopo-meter next to his big Betsy-Andreu-Phone-
Conversation-Record-o-Matic? And that Lemond wasn't the first consultant the WADA docs call?
Don't sell him short!
screw Condi ... send Lemond over to create the 'new middle-east'
I love PO'd Lemond ....
Hey, regardless, ain't we all riding/racing tomorrow and ain't 'dat cool.
'Cause, I wish this didn't happen but I'm glad I'm pushing gears everyday.
Rockstars, all ya'!
not sure if they have done the carbon tests or who would actually perform the test, but according to Coggan:
"The reason that the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone is used is because it is nearly impossible to detect the difference between naturally-produced and synthetically-produced testosterone. There are subtle differences between the two in the natural abundance of carbon 13, but that requires rather sophisticated measurements be performed using a gas chromatograph/combustion/isotope ratio mass spectrometer (one of which I happen to be sitting next to as I type this), and WADA has yet to adopt that method for routine use."
if he's innocent then you'd think he'd be getting one of these done to use in the appeal
It the carbon testing is that sensitive it's probably too sensitive to be an effective doping detection tool.
And I think Greg Lemond expresses too many opinions about things he clearly can't know...AH!
This sounds like Landis is getting some coaching on how to deal with the media.
I'd sart sueing everyone under the sun...personally. I'd start with the Lab...seems to be the only lab that finds dopers...and none of them spanish...
Free Floyd!
Lemond is pissed at any american that wins the tour......
cause the he aint cool anymore....
And on that subject, he won the tour in some of thier most Doped years, how the hell could he have done that clean? He had to have doped to even the playing field, but you dont see us pointing out the obvious every chance we get......
Stop crying and keep designing bikes without proper drainage holes and BB welds......
The real reason why Floyd failed the dope test.
http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index.jhtml?ml_video=72248
rejuvinate my manhood ...
by goin' to gay bars and getting in fights ...
classic.
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