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07-30-2006, 09:51 AM
During Saturday's press conference in Madrid, Landis' attorney outlined three arguments of defense.
First, Landis failed the anti-doping test because he has naturally occurring high testosterone and epitestosterone levels dating back to his childhood.
I guess that these naturally occuring high testosterone and epitestosterone levels dating back to childhood occur only on the third Thursday in July!!! since the other times he was tested in yellow the levels were normal.
Second, Landis will under endocrine studies that will reveal the naturally high levels, and third, that the testing method used by the Châtenay-Malabry laboratory is unfounded and that the lab, without telling the UCI and thus breaking protocol, that the positive is exogenous testosterone.
"There is no laboratory in the world that still uses this testing method because of tremendous faults," Buxeda said. "Even though it has come back as a positive according to this testing method, we cannot absolutely say that this signifies a positive doping case."
I guess the lab that tested Justin Gatlin (Track and Field Sprinter) and found him with high testosterone levels is also using an unfounded test.
In addtion, Floyd's doctor says that there is no immediate benefit to using testosterone. Look at the below quote:
Jesús Manzano, the ex-pro who revealed insider details of doping a series of paid interviews two years, said that testosterone can be taken during competition and its effects can be felt "almost immediately."
In an article with his byline in the Spanish daily AS, Manzano outlined the way riders can take testosterone during a competition, undercutting the argument that testosterone is a substance taken over weeks and months to slowly build strength and resistance.
Manzano's interviews helped draw attention to controversial Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, who is now at the center of an ongoing doping investigation in Spain.
"Its effects are felt almost immediately," Manzano wrote. "It gives you a lot of force and produces a euphoria."
Manzano outlined three ways to take testosterone during a competition.
First are patches, called AndroGel, which are applied in during a light massage usually during the evening mealtime. Manzano said the patches had to be used less than two hours to not risk going above the T/E ratio threshold and risking a positive doping test. Manzano also said clandestine suppositories are used as well as intravenous injections, called Rastandol, taking about 20 minutes to 1 hour before competition.
Another option are pills of Andriol, called "beans" in the cycling underworld, but these usually take several days to kick in and he said it's not likely riders would use them during competition.
I think Floyd was clean until he bonked on Stage 16. He was rumored to be walking the halls of his hotel that night talking to himself and saying "I must win this race." His racing future in jeopardy because of his pending hip replacement, he took a risk and used the steroid for stage 17. This is the only way to explain negative T/E results for all previous tests. It is too coincidental to have happened after stage 17.
I hope I am wrong, however I do not think so.
First, Landis failed the anti-doping test because he has naturally occurring high testosterone and epitestosterone levels dating back to his childhood.
I guess that these naturally occuring high testosterone and epitestosterone levels dating back to childhood occur only on the third Thursday in July!!! since the other times he was tested in yellow the levels were normal.
Second, Landis will under endocrine studies that will reveal the naturally high levels, and third, that the testing method used by the Châtenay-Malabry laboratory is unfounded and that the lab, without telling the UCI and thus breaking protocol, that the positive is exogenous testosterone.
"There is no laboratory in the world that still uses this testing method because of tremendous faults," Buxeda said. "Even though it has come back as a positive according to this testing method, we cannot absolutely say that this signifies a positive doping case."
I guess the lab that tested Justin Gatlin (Track and Field Sprinter) and found him with high testosterone levels is also using an unfounded test.
In addtion, Floyd's doctor says that there is no immediate benefit to using testosterone. Look at the below quote:
Jesús Manzano, the ex-pro who revealed insider details of doping a series of paid interviews two years, said that testosterone can be taken during competition and its effects can be felt "almost immediately."
In an article with his byline in the Spanish daily AS, Manzano outlined the way riders can take testosterone during a competition, undercutting the argument that testosterone is a substance taken over weeks and months to slowly build strength and resistance.
Manzano's interviews helped draw attention to controversial Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, who is now at the center of an ongoing doping investigation in Spain.
"Its effects are felt almost immediately," Manzano wrote. "It gives you a lot of force and produces a euphoria."
Manzano outlined three ways to take testosterone during a competition.
First are patches, called AndroGel, which are applied in during a light massage usually during the evening mealtime. Manzano said the patches had to be used less than two hours to not risk going above the T/E ratio threshold and risking a positive doping test. Manzano also said clandestine suppositories are used as well as intravenous injections, called Rastandol, taking about 20 minutes to 1 hour before competition.
Another option are pills of Andriol, called "beans" in the cycling underworld, but these usually take several days to kick in and he said it's not likely riders would use them during competition.
I think Floyd was clean until he bonked on Stage 16. He was rumored to be walking the halls of his hotel that night talking to himself and saying "I must win this race." His racing future in jeopardy because of his pending hip replacement, he took a risk and used the steroid for stage 17. This is the only way to explain negative T/E results for all previous tests. It is too coincidental to have happened after stage 17.
I hope I am wrong, however I do not think so.