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Floyd Landis Case closed?
[SIZE=-1]Weltwoche, Switzerland [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Floyd Landis has not intention of admitting any doping offence and maintains that he won the Tour de France fair and square. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times he said: "I refuse to accept that the world works this way. I don't buy it.” [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]There are a few other people who “don’t buy it.” Amongst them there are some very reputable scientists who specialise in doping analysis and in the effects of testosterone on the human body. After the ruling was released Dr Wolfram Meier-Augenstein, Senior Lecturer in Stable Isotope Forensics at Queen’s University in Belfast, restated his view that the work of the French lab LNDD had been “atrociously bad.” He deems the CAS-ruling “a tragedy for the sports community and a travesty of science and justice” and sees it as “a victory of corporate ego and politics over justice.” Meier-Augenstein is so seriously disappointed with the unprofessional sloppy work of the LNDD that he plans to dedicate a whole chapter of his forthcoming textbook „Forensic Stable Isotope Analysis“ to the Landis case – under the heading “how not to do it”. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Not only science took a beating on Monday when the CAS-ruling was published but also the law. Bill Hue, a Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge, who has followed the Landis case closely from the beginning, speaks of a “sad day for justice” and has vowed to “deconstruct the fable that was Landis’ anti-doping prosecution”. For Bill Hue Floyd Landis remains a hero: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]“Floyd is not my hero because he is an American or because he won the Tour de France. Greg LeMond and/or Lance Armstrong are not my heroes and they won many more tours than Floyd has. Floyd is not my hero because of his epic ride on Stage 17 of the 2006 race. Without demeaning that ride, others in cycling have had similar epic single day rides throughout the years. Floyd is my hero because in the face of the biggest travesties of “justice” I have ever seen, he stood proud, determined, true to himself and his family and did not bow to those who define “the game” by making its rules, prosecuting those deemed to violate those rules and then stack the deck with those responsible to judge those “violations”. [/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Weltwoche, Switzerland [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Floyd Landis has not intention of admitting any doping offence and maintains that he won the Tour de France fair and square. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times he said: "I refuse to accept that the world works this way. I don't buy it.” [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]There are a few other people who “don’t buy it.” Amongst them there are some very reputable scientists who specialise in doping analysis and in the effects of testosterone on the human body. After the ruling was released Dr Wolfram Meier-Augenstein, Senior Lecturer in Stable Isotope Forensics at Queen’s University in Belfast, restated his view that the work of the French lab LNDD had been “atrociously bad.” He deems the CAS-ruling “a tragedy for the sports community and a travesty of science and justice” and sees it as “a victory of corporate ego and politics over justice.” Meier-Augenstein is so seriously disappointed with the unprofessional sloppy work of the LNDD that he plans to dedicate a whole chapter of his forthcoming textbook „Forensic Stable Isotope Analysis“ to the Landis case – under the heading “how not to do it”. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Not only science took a beating on Monday when the CAS-ruling was published but also the law. Bill Hue, a Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge, who has followed the Landis case closely from the beginning, speaks of a “sad day for justice” and has vowed to “deconstruct the fable that was Landis’ anti-doping prosecution”. For Bill Hue Floyd Landis remains a hero: [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]“Floyd is not my hero because he is an American or because he won the Tour de France. Greg LeMond and/or Lance Armstrong are not my heroes and they won many more tours than Floyd has. Floyd is not my hero because of his epic ride on Stage 17 of the 2006 race. Without demeaning that ride, others in cycling have had similar epic single day rides throughout the years. Floyd is my hero because in the face of the biggest travesties of “justice” I have ever seen, he stood proud, determined, true to himself and his family and did not bow to those who define “the game” by making its rules, prosecuting those deemed to violate those rules and then stack the deck with those responsible to judge those “violations”. [/SIZE]
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