Le Tour Winner fails Drugs test

[logansoldcigar]

Oh dear oh dear oh dear

For what its worth, I have never ever thought that Lance Armstrong was/is a drugs cheat. In fact, he is the closest thing I have to a hero. Pity about his successor, it would seem.


Oh Dear Oh Dear

one thing tho, before i cut n paste the entire story: toio much testosterone?
Lucky Im not a cyclist. I sweat pure testosterone

Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has given a positive drugs test, according to his Phonak team.
The American, who claimed victory in the Tour de France on Sunday, has tested positive for the male sex hormone testosterone.

The positive test came after stage 17 of the Tour, which saw Landis record an epic victory after struggling on the final climb the day before.

Landis has been suspended pending results of his B sample analysis.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) announced on Wednesday that a rider had failed a doping test but would not reveal his name.

"The Phonak Cycling Team was notified on Wednesday by the UCI of an unusual level of testosterone/epitestosterone ratio in the test made on Floyd Landis after stage 17 of the Tour de France," said a team statement.

"The team management and the rider were both totally surprised of this physiological result.

"The rider will ask in the upcoming days for the counter analysis (B sample) to prove either that this result has come from a natural process or that this is the result of a mistake."

Phonak have also said that if the second sample confirms the positive test, Landis will be sacked.

Landis had already withdrawn from two races in Europe this week, Wednesday's Acht van Chaam street race in the Netherlands and Thursday's Jyske Bank Grand Prix in Denmark.

"Today, Phonak confirmed the cancellation. They could not say anything about why Landis has disappeared," said Jyske Bank Grand Prix spokesman Nils Finderup.

"We have tried to call him, to call his agent, and to call the head of the Phonak team, but no one has answered."

Organisers of the Acht van Chaam event were also angry at Landis' no-show.

"We have tried to contact Floyd and his manager but we have not been able to," said race agent John van den Akker.

"We are very annoyed. We have invested a lot of money to ensure his appearance and we would have expected some kind of explanation."

Landis finished 57 seconds ahead of Spain's Oscar Pereiro in the general classification to claim his first Tour de France title last weekend.

 

[Kaleb]

hahahaha sorry but I find that strangly funny.

 

[Kaleb]

 

[logansoldcigar]

I find it comical that a man can fail for being to much of a man.

 

[U.S War Machine]

That really stinks

 

[Mr. Vice]

Ha!

 

[Kaleb]

what I dont understand is why did they let him continue the tour .

 

[logansoldcigar]

Because they have to test his B sample. If that confirms the results of the A sample, then he is out or stripped.

 

[Truthteller]

Yes, lets wait for the confirmation before condeming him. They took the sample after the stage in the Alps that he won. He would normally have elevated testosterone after an exertion like that.

 

[logansoldcigar]

they would take that into account when making the test. the b sample is from the same bottle of piss anyway. they just divide it in two and send it to a different lab, to account for human error.

 

[Darthphere]

I have too much testosterone.

 

[jaguarr]

There are guys out there with EXTREMELY high testosterone profiles naturally and he may be one of them. If he has a good historical record of his bloodwork that illustrates this, that will be one feather in his cap. I've felt the Tour De France people have been on a witch hunt for Americans who compete in and win their races, though, as they clearly demonstrated in their relentless persecution of Armstrong over his bloodwork. There's more than a little bias at play, here, so it makes these circumstances very circumspect.

jag

 

[Clerk]

I find it comical that a man can fail for being to much of a man.

Buhahahaha.

 

[Hudson]

There are guys out there with EXTREMELY high testosterone profiles naturally and he may be one of them. If he has a good historical record of his bloodwork that illustrates this, that will be one feather in his cap. I've felt the Tour De France people have been on a witch hunt for Americans who compete in and win their races, though, as they clearly demonstrated in their relentless persecution of Armstrong over his bloodwork. There's more than a little bias at play, here, so it makes these circumstances very circumspect.

jag

No there's not

 

[jaguarr]

No there's not

Yes there is.

jag

 

[Hudson]

Yes there is.

jag

No I haven't noticed anything biased, where's the bias?

 

[Immortalfire]

Too much testosterone...never heard of such a thing

 

[logansoldcigar]

There are guys out there with EXTREMELY high testosterone profiles naturally and he may be one of them. If he has a good historical record of his bloodwork that illustrates this, that will be one feather in his cap. I've felt the Tour De France people have been on a witch hunt for Americans who compete in and win their races, though, as they clearly demonstrated in their relentless persecution of Armstrong over his bloodwork. There's more than a little bias at play, here, so it makes these circumstances very circumspect.

jag

cycling has always been a dirty sport though. Ive always tended to believe that armstrong was the exception rather than the rule.

the witch hunt against him was more the french press than cycling itself. with its rep., it has to investigate every accusation properly.

if the rider in question has a naturally high level of testosterone, it would have been known before this test was taken. people can declare medications ect. I think if that was the case, i dont think they would have named him. i cant think of too many cases where a b sample has cleared an athlete.

and we should all remeber the irish swimmer from the atlanta games, Michelle smith. everyone claimed it was a witch hunt with her. and she was caught in the end.

 

[logansoldcigar]

and jag, tests are done in WADA and IOC accredited labs. the procedures are really tight these days. remember when butch reynolds sued the IOC for billions cos he failed a drugs test? .

the workers dont know who they are testing when they do it. the person testing landis' b sample wont know its him.

 

[jaguarr]

The French as a whole have kind of had it in for American riders on the tour. It's how these accusations come up in the first place. There's bias, even if they try to do it quietly.

jag

 

[jaguarr]

and jag, tests are done in WADA and IOC accredited labs. the procedures are really tight these days. remember when butch reynolds sued the IOC for billions cos he failed a drugs test? .

the workers dont know who they are testing when they do it. the person testing landis' b sample wont know its him.

Yeah, I don't really have a problem with the labs. That stuff is all done in a pretty controlled environment, for the most part. It's not foolproof from would-be tamperers, but it's damn hard to do it at all thanks to the way the labs are run.

jag

 

[logansoldcigar]

they have really tightened up cos of what happened with Diane Modhal. She had a sample that wasnt put in the firdge. it fermented.

 

[jaguarr]

Yeah, but have you HAD fermented blood? Oh, man is it good shaken with some ice, triple-sec and a little bit of lime juice!

jag

 

[Leto Atrides]

Too much testosterone...never heard of such a thing

If I'm reading this correctly, it's too much in proportion to other hormones, not just too much in the first place.

Which should definitely merit further testing, as that's very fishy and probably artificial. But I wouldn't think that would indicate anything in particular, just that something is up.

 

[logansoldcigar]

go to the bbc website. download some shows called "the tribe" . its a british guy that spends time with tribes in africa. eats clotted blood, has blood milkshakes, all that stuff.