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Tomorrow's New York Times Magazine runs a long piece on Mr. Pound, titled, "The Scold". It is perhaps even more negative about his mouth than the Wired piece, complete with inflammatory comments about Landis:
Pound took something like a schoolboy’s delight in talking about Landis’s lab result, which supposedly showed his testosterone level to be grotesquely above what is typical for most men. Landis has denied taking a prohibited substance and is fighting what could be a two-year ban from cycling. “I mean, it was 11 to 1!” Pound said, referring to Landis’s reported testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio, a measure used to identify doping. “You’d think he’d be violating every virgin within 100 miles. How does he even get on his bicycle?”
It's not clear when the interview that provided that quote occurred -- it may have been from back in the Nazi Frogmen period. TBV suggests counting to 10 on reading that paragraph, then reading on. It looks like the harsh spotlight is turning towards Mr. Pound.
CyclingNews poll places Landis 4th most improved rider in 2006, after Schleck, Cancellara and Valverde.
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ORG here ...
TBV et. al:
Stop what your doing and read the lengthy piece in today's NY Times magazine about Dick Pound and WADA.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/magazine/07Antidoping.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin
Tons of over the top quotes about Landis. A taste ....
On this particular day, Pound, who is 64, looked tired. His broad face was drawn, his complexion pasty. He had just returned from China, and his back hurt. Thinking about Landis seemed to enliven him. He spoke of the cyclist as if he were some sleazy perp just collared by the vice squad. “He was 11 minutes behind or something, and all of the sudden there’s this Herculean effort, where he’s going up mountains like he’s on a goddamn Harley,” he said. In the 2006 tour, Landis raced in pain while awaiting a hip replacement, went out to an early lead, lost it, then seemed to miraculously regain it. “It’s a great story,” Pound said. “Wonderful. But if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.”
Pound took something like a schoolboy’s delight in talking about Landis’s lab result, which supposedly showed his testosterone level to be grotesquely above what is typical for most men. Landis has denied taking a prohibited substance and is fighting what could be a two-year ban from cycling. “I mean, it was 11 to 1!” Pound said, referring to Landis’s reported testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio, a measure used to identify doping. “You’d think he’d be violating every virgin within 100 miles. How does he even get on his bicycle?”
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ORG Here ...
Actually the second half is an excellent discussion of what is a PED and what is coming.
If this article is correct, it looks like we going to need to have a serious discussion of what a PED is. Otherwise in 20 years TBV and myself can juice on the stuff this article says is coming and race up l'alpe d' Huez in a time faster than the time trial two years ago.
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