Sloppy work to blame for Landis’ posotive sample
September 13th, 2006 by MikeVia: BikeBiz
Howard Jacobs, the attorney acting on behalf of Tour de France champion Floyd Landis, has revealed his hand. There’s no talk of Jack Daniels, cortisone injections or embryonic twins. The T/E ratio abnormalities and synthetic man-juice in the A and B urine samples Landis gave after stage 17 are all down to “sloppy” work by the French anti-doping lab, said Jacobs. This sloppy work included mismatching of sample codes, a “gross error”.
When his A test was found positive, Floyd Landis flapped, throwing out possible explanations like confetti. Some folks thought this was suspect behaviour, others thought it demonstrated Landis was surprised and confused by the testosterone/epitestosterone (T/E) abnormalties found in his urine.
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BikeBiz is getting a lot of stuff (credited) from my blog of full coverage of the Landis case at http://trustbut.blogspot.com
-dB
The theory I like right now: Landis grew up trusting everybody. He’s caught up in a world that he can’t quite handle, though he pretends to be a part of it and plays the part. He’s a modern day Beverly Hillbilly, a hick from the sticks making it big in the city.
So when his friends say, “Here, try this. It’ll make you feel better. Trust us, there’s nothing illegal in it!” well, he just tries it.