fiamme red
07-11-2010, 09:24 PM
Not very discreet or dignified on Verbruggen's part.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more_sports/2010/07/10/2010-07-10_disgraced_floyd_landis_rides_alone.html#ixzz0tQ lQjR9h
The e-mail message that arrived in Floyd Landis' inbox on the morning of June 4, almost a month after he confessed to doping and accused Lance Armstrong and others of doing the same, was signed with the initials "HV." Other than that, it consisted of just one insulting sentence: "Mr. Landis, you're not worth any further word or attention except perhaps from psychiatrists."
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And the recommendation of psychiatric care wasn't the first note Verbruggen sent Landis. Two days earlier, on June 2, Verbruggen taunted Landis by sending a link to a sportswriter's column that took Landis to task for having questioned the ethics of anti-doping agencies during the arbitration fight over his positive test four years earlier.
"I did not want to accept the risk that you would miss this article," Verbruggen wrote to Landis. "After reading you might, together with me, conclude that if being a nuisance to (many) other people would be the main objective of your life you succeed so well that you should still get a yellow jersey (this time WELL DESERVED!!)."
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Verbruggen's taunting notes to Landis are part of a series of e-mails obtained by the Daily News that shed some new light on the isolation that Landis risked with his accusations (although he has apparently made some new friends in law enforcement). They also provide a few clues about approaches federal investigators may be taking as they begin probing the sport Verbruggen oversaw through the 1980s and 1990s...
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more_sports/2010/07/10/2010-07-10_disgraced_floyd_landis_rides_alone.html#ixzz0tQ lQjR9h
The e-mail message that arrived in Floyd Landis' inbox on the morning of June 4, almost a month after he confessed to doping and accused Lance Armstrong and others of doing the same, was signed with the initials "HV." Other than that, it consisted of just one insulting sentence: "Mr. Landis, you're not worth any further word or attention except perhaps from psychiatrists."
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And the recommendation of psychiatric care wasn't the first note Verbruggen sent Landis. Two days earlier, on June 2, Verbruggen taunted Landis by sending a link to a sportswriter's column that took Landis to task for having questioned the ethics of anti-doping agencies during the arbitration fight over his positive test four years earlier.
"I did not want to accept the risk that you would miss this article," Verbruggen wrote to Landis. "After reading you might, together with me, conclude that if being a nuisance to (many) other people would be the main objective of your life you succeed so well that you should still get a yellow jersey (this time WELL DESERVED!!)."
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Verbruggen's taunting notes to Landis are part of a series of e-mails obtained by the Daily News that shed some new light on the isolation that Landis risked with his accusations (although he has apparently made some new friends in law enforcement). They also provide a few clues about approaches federal investigators may be taking as they begin probing the sport Verbruggen oversaw through the 1980s and 1990s...