Thursday, January 11, 2007

Thursday Roundup

News
Cyclingnews' Sue George writes about last night's appearance in Arlington,VA providing information not found in the Reuters piece, noting that this may be the first in a series of "town hall" like appearances:

A silent auction and a raffle raised money for the Floyd Fairness Fund. One signed bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey went for $350 while a jersey auctioned for $700. All total, the evening raised about $5,000 to $6,000 as estimated by the evening's volunteer moderator and local cyclist Scott Scudamore.

The Guardian posts the Reuters piece from last night on Landis' FFF appearance in Arlington, VA after which Landis took questions. When asked about his upcoming arbitration hearing he stated:
"The best case scenario would be if it ended in the next few weeks, we had a hearing and it was over, and I could race the tour this year," he said.
"But I don't really see that as a possibility, 2008 is much more likely."

Eurosport publishes the same Reuters piece cited above (and in the Wednesday Roundup.) As does SI.Com and MSNBC.com.

PezCycling
Eurotrash Thursday mentions the Pound/Landis war of words from earlier this week.

Blogs
FloydLandis.com has a 3 month update on the hip resurfacing, by Dr. Kay, on the 4th anniversary of the accident that broke it, retelling some of the history of the injury:
He has regained full strength, power and range of motion and is completely pain free. His one leg power tests now show that the new hip is actually stronger than the other side. With normal length restored to his femur and the elimination of his chronic pain, Floyd is riding uninhibited for the first time in nearly 4 years.

Blacknell.net has a great write up of the event in Arlington, VA last night, here is one notable (paraphrased by the blogger) quote among many (thanks for mentioning TbV!):
If he were a rider who wasn’t implicated, he’d be afraid to speak out on the doping control issue. He doesn’t think that anyone can take his side without putting himself at risk from retribution by a very closed system

PodiumCafe talks about Arlington event, and there are a few pix here.

Old School Cycling talks about Arlington; unfortunately, the good link is broken, so we'll quote:

A quick note about America’s Champion, Floyd Landis. He’s snuck himself into the Nation’s Capitol for a bakesale fundraising raid. One can only wonder how his personal hovercraft evaded the radar of D.C. journos, but lucky for Floyd his unadvertised event was a whopping $5000 success. That cover the first 60 seconds of his trial before the American arbitrators–which has yet to be scheduled. He did pawn autographed bottles of Jack Daniels, which of course will get you extra fucked up and double your VO2 max for 24 hours. Floyd has scheduled a series of unannounced visits around the country to raise money for his defense.

To Readers in the Landis Entourage: as a Communications Professional, I must say that actually telling people in the public about an event in advance will somewhat increase the amount of attendees you host, and is likely to increase the amount you raise. I can’t imagine $5000 even covers the cost of cocaine and hookers for your entourage in D.C.: HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET AHEAD?


Velo Pas Terrain drops his New Year's resolution to stop snarkin' so much on Landis, just this one last time.

Rant talks about Arlington and a forthcoming series of Town Hall meetings like it.

Forums
DPF thread on NYT article has diverged into a discussion whether and when Landis should have had reason to believe low doses of T are useful for recovery, and how that should affect interpretation of his remarks the T doping makes no sense.

Misc.
At Amazon.com you can pre-order the book,"Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France" by Floyd Landis.

Simon & Schuster
are the publishers and you can pre order the book on their site as well.

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Floyd, sounds like your appearance last night was a hit. When are you coming to Chicago?

I've got my checkbook ready!!

Anonymous said...

I was at the event last night - it was a great time. Floyd was open and accessible. He's still an awful public speaker when he's not responding to a specific question, but that's not his job. His job is winning races, and I'd love to see him back and doing that soon.

A short write up of his comments at my site, if anyone is interested.

Anonymous said...

Huh. That would be here.

Anonymous said...

From the Reuters article...

"His arbitration hearing with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency appeared to be sliding from the first quarter of the year to July, said Landis, who could become the first Tour winner to be stripped of the title."

July!? That's nuts. The hearing should have been over by now. I wonder if we'll ever find out why this is taking so long?

~ Cub

Anonymous said...

How about TBV organizes a FFF town hall meeting in his area ;-) ?

Anonymous said...

With all the time that it's taking to get this hearing off the ground they better be preparing a laser show to open it.

Anonymous said...

Yes scifitwin, along with a Pep Band playing "The Horse".... They definitely WON'T be playing that other instrumental classic from Booker T & the MGs - "Time is Tight"...

Anonymous said...

Unless they are negotiating with Landis behind closed doors, I think they are trying to "ban" him by dragging their feet. I think it's B.S. I imagine that Travis T. view is, if you can't win postpone the fight as long as possible.
They know they will lose and they have no idea how to spin it in their favor. By the way I saw that they all have their email address available on USADA website. Maybe I'll drop a line to see whats the hold up.

Atown, Tx.

Anonymous said...

Anon, Booker T's "Put a Label on It" would work. Or, for that matter "The Floyd" by The Mar-Keys. Stax/Volt can liven up any party.

Or, you can resurrect laserium and have Laser Floyd.

Rimshot? No? Okay.