Floyd Landis apparently had a positive doping test. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060727/ap_on_sp_ot/cyc_floyd_landis_2
Bummer.
Bummer.
DOG51 said:I wonder if he was taking something for his bad hip? Maybe Rich can tell us if a pain killer or something for his hip would cause that. I can't imagine why anyone would take a performance enhancing drug because they should know they are going to be tested after a big event like this.
Cute Fuzzy Bunny said:So serious.
Its riding a bicycle and hitting a ball with a stick!
Maybe if we didnt pay them gazillions to play kids games and with kids toys, they wouldnt mess around with enhancements!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/sports/othersports/01landis.html?th&emc=thTromboneAl said:. . .
Why is it that the news organizations don't quote an expert opinion on whether the doctor's claim is reasonable? Whether it's possible for someone to have a ratio like that naturally should be known. If it's not known, then the test isn't a valid one.
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. . . The French national antidoping laboratory in Châtenay-Malabry performed a carbon isotope ratio test on the first of Landis’s two urine samples provided after Stage 17, the person, who is in the cycling union’s antidoping department, said in an interview yesterday.
That test, which differentiates between natural and synthetic testosterone, was done after Landis’s ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone was found to be more than twice what is allowed under World Anti-Doping Agency rules, the person said. Regulations limit the ratio to four to one. The range for an average person is between one to one and two to one.
Landis’s personal doctor, Dr. Brent Kay of Temecula, Calif., said he hoped that the results of Landis’s carbon isotope ratio test and of the initial T/E test were false positives. He did, however, acknowledge that the initial test found a ratio of 11 to 1 in Landis’s system. He and Landis are seeking an explanation for that high level.
“I’ve seen bodybuilders with numbers 100 to 1,” Kay said. “Although Floyd’s was elevated, it’s not off the chart or anything.”
Kay said there could be many explanations for Landis’s high ratio, including a naturally high testosterone to epitestosterone level, bacterial contamination, alcohol consumption the night before the test or contamination of the specimen during testing. He could not say why synthetic testosterone might have been in Landis’s system. He said both tests could have been inaccurate. . .
AltaRed said:Have to wonder what was going on in his head to make such a poor decision.
Winning :AltaRed said:Have to wonder what was going on in his head to make such a poor decision.
"Cool, I've gotten away with this for months!!"AltaRed said:Have to wonder what was going on in his head to make such a poor decision.