tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318196412011-11-27T16:18:23.813-08:00News, Research and Commentary about the Floyd Landis doping allegations.<p> CLOSED 31-DEC-2008</p>DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.comBlogger13971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-61776566854638092022008-12-31T23:59:00.000-08:002008-12-31T23:59:00.668-08:00

Oh No!I killed the Wabbit!You were expecting a happy ending?Ga-Ga-Ga-Ga-Ga-uh-Good-- So Long.The site will remain live as long as blogger keeps it, and we'll try to get it archived into the archive.org wayback machine. Comments will also remain open as long as anyone wishes to use them.

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Hey, it's over.We know what the official word has been about the Landis case -- and the Federal case that might have looked into how we got that word through arbitration has been settled on terms that let Landis race right away, and USADA not to have to explain.We also have our own access to the testimony, arguments and exhibits, and our many long-running discussions about the case.[MORE]A long

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Starbuck, before Battlestar Galactica, coffee, and TBV, was Capt. Ahab's first mate on the Pequod.What I will remember from my stint here, and what I think may be the point of all of "this" , is the people. The memories of all of the readers and contributors, all of those people who gave of their time and effort because they so strongly believed in a cause, in a just cause in their

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THE BELL TOLLSFinal Thought on the Landis CaseBill HuePerchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that....No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the

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Marc is a retired American living in Paris who joined us at the time of the Ferret.My involvement in this fascinating struggle began on THAT day in July 2006. I had recently moved to Paris, and my in-laws were visiting from Connecticut. They had a whole lot more energy than I did, so on that day I'd begged out of whatever sightseeing forced march they'd planned. I didn't do it in order to

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Let me ask you.Have you ever held a position in an argument past the point of comfort?Have you ever defended a way of life you were on the verge of exhausting?Have you ever given service to a creed you no longer utterly believed?Have you ever told a girl that you loved her and felt the faint nausea of eroding conviction?I have.That's an interesting moment. --John Patrick Shanley1Guess you

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Wolfram Meier-Augenstein testified for Landis at the AAA hearing. He is an expert in isotope ratio spectrometry, invented a number of the techniques, and is widely published. He also sent us a short, direct responses to the topics we suggested, and this longer piece, which we have reformatted. In the cover letter, he writes:I have attached a slightly amended version of my "who watches the

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Howdy, pardner!Bing Crosby sings the theme song better than we can.Quickrelease thinks there's something fishy.Rant gives us a nice send off.The Boulder Report gives a fond farewell. If we were pedantic sorts, we might complain about being called Southern Californian, which is like calling someone in Gunnison a front-ranger. But that would be unnappreciative: Lindsay has kept his own counsel and

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Wolfram Meier-Augenstein testified for Landis at the AAA hearing. He is an expert in isotope ratio spectrometry, invented a number of the techniques, and is widely published. He sent us some short, direct responses to the topics we suggested, and a longer piece which we'll publish separately.On the Merits of the Landis caseThe data produced by LNDD are scientifically flawed (ambiguous

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Dan Rosen's Rant Your Head Off predated us by a few days, but he was smart enough to avoid being daily, and to have a wider focus. The experience led to a book. The wisdom of being sporadic helped him avoid burnout, and the wider focus lets him evade the sell-by-date that came with our narrower interests.You Can’t Fight City HallThere’s a certain genre of Hollywood B movies and pulp fiction

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Joe Papp is an American sometime-professional cyclist who was busted for testosterone use and testified for USADA at the AAA hearing. He has openly admitted his own guilt.When TBV invited me to share my thoughts on the puzzle that was the Landis Affair, I eagerly accepted – though weeks passed before I could finally articulate my perspective on the case.[MORE]As I said during the arbitration

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Arnie Baker MD (ret.), is a prolific author of cycling training and medical information. He was Landis' first coach in California. On hearing the accusations, he worked actively on interpreting the available information for the defense, and prepared the well known presentations and various versions of The Wiki Defense publication.Landis’s LegacyExposing a Flawed Anti-Doping System (For more

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Bruce Goldberger Phd, is prominent forensic toxicologist, and lab director who testified for Landis at both hearings. Prior to involvement in the Landis case, he'd been invited to apply as a candidate to replace Catlin as Director of the UCLA WADA laboratory.As many people know, I was reluctant to get involved in the Landis case as I do not work for (and never have) an anti-doping laboratory.

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Spinopsys Phil, an Australian self-described Floyd-basher, sent these regrets, and made good on his promise of mention at Cycling Central.[Back to the Introduction]I really appreciate you asking. First off congratulations of a fine blog and more importantly a fine example of what media might look like in the future. You've demonstrated that long form journalism in the digital age does not end

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John Amory MD, is a leading andrologist (male hormone specialist) who testified for Landis in both hearings, arguing the metabolism of testosterone as documented in all reviewed studies does not have divergences between the adiols claimed in the test values. Amory had served on USADA anti-doping review boards prior to the Landis case. In response to a specific question, he replied, "I would

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La Cronica de Hoy says Landis/OUCH-Maxxis will participate in the Tour of Mexico in March, following the Amgen Tour of California.Lancaster Online's big news of the year roundup has Landis' loss at CAS an also-ran story, behind: the economy, the election, some murders and fatal accidents, a politician retiring, a fraud case, and closing of a local landmark retailer. And the Phillies.Cyclisme

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I'd gotten "Bigger, Faster, Stronger" for Christmas, and was watching it in the morning. I'd paused it yesterday at about the 1:05 mark, when filmmaker Chris Bell's brother Mark was talking about lying to kids on the football team he was coaching about whether he took steroids.Last night, we see the news that other brother Mike "Mad Dog" Bell was dead at age 37.This morning, as I unpaused the

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Maurice Suh and Daniel Weiss represented Landis at both the AAA hearing and the CAS appeal. Rather than write anew, they pointed us to a piece in the Los Angeles Daily Journal in January 2008, from before the CAS hearing. We hadn't seen it before.[Back to the Introduction]Playing Hardballby Maurice Suh and Daniel WeissSome extracts:The phrase ``presumed innocent until proven guilty'' is

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Rational Head took long part in the scientific discussions at the Daily Peloton Forums. He, like Christiane Ayotte, found he had no time to say more.[Back to the Introduction]Thanks for the invitation.At various times I expressed my thoughts at DPF on all the topics you listed. Unfortunately, I am going through a period when I simply don’t have much time to participate even in the DPF

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US Air Force Major (for identification only, yada, yada) John Gilliland wrote an overlooked piece for us dealing with prosecutorial discretion. He is an Air Force judge advocate, involved in numerous drug prosecutions involving urinalysis testing.[Back to the Introduction]In a cover letter, he writes:A bit of context for my piece: my office, which is the prosecution function for my Air Force

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Duckstrap is a consultant to pharmaceutical companies on setting up statistically useful and regulatory compliant development evaluation. He's looked at the available data along with us and heavily participated in the discussion. He too makes reference to the Berry argument.[Back to the Introduction]How does the Landis case look from the vantage of two years’ perspective? Muddy. I submit

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Klaas Faber is a widely published author on statistics for accreditation of chemometry measures. He's looked at the Landis case since it became public. He cites below the editorial in Nature by Donald Berry. (Our posts referencing Berry)[Back to the Introduction]Laboratories have arranged that they don't need to give the full data, in the WADA TD2003LDOC. In contrast, the Dutch Forensic

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Carlton Reid is a UK-based cycling media mogul.[Back to the Introduction]Trust But Verify is closing, but I don't feel closure. And if I also feel somewhat bitter and twisted, that's nothing to how Floyd Landis must have felt since the beginning of this sorry saga.I came into this subject equipped with standard-issue, media-myopia goggles. WADA was pure, accused athletes were dirty, cheating scum

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WADAWatch was started because the sometime-jurist author was taken aback by what he believes is the horrible wording of the WADA Code. It intrigued him enough to take vacation time to go to a WADA Conference for the press and meet and speak to many of the principals. His meta-legal analyses of The Code seem to us essential reading to anyone interested in rationalizing The Code. (Unfortunately,

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Christiane Ayotte is the director of the Montreal WADA lab, and testified for USADA at both the AAA and CAS hearings. She quickly sent a brief reply to our solicitation.[Back to the Introduction]Thanks for the invitation.All what I had to say in relation to the findings reported by Paris, the interpretation of the results, all the arguments raised by the athlete's experts is totally

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Race Junkie is a blogger who is most truly resplendent in the full-foaming rant. On this occasion, she takes off the rabid mask and adopts more respectable form, reflecting her day job as a civil rights attorney. [Back to the Introduction]In the two-odd years since Operacion Puerto broke bang in the middle of the Giro d’Italia, bringing a good hundred cyclists into disrepute and effectively

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One Mint Julich is a frequent contributor on the Daily Peloton Forums, and heavily participated in the productive scientific discussion there. At our request, he summarizes it all from his point of view as follows.[Back to the Introduction]I’m a scientist who is fairly familiar with, though not expert in, the methodology used to test Floyd. I was fairly impressed with the evidence against him

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Dirt Roadie is a 56 year old attorney, "practicing until he gets it right." When cycling, he says he prefers riding the high mountain and low desert terrain of Colorado and Utah, on or off-road. He participated in our analysis of the CAS appeal.[Back to the Introduction]Floyd, and allegations of doping. So, looking back, what happened and what have we learned?Human behavior is, on a

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Larry, the loquacious, has been a frequent contributer and commenter here and at Rant. He's taken full advantage of the lack of length restrictions here in the blogosphere. A banking attorney, his calling card here was "Larry's Curb Your Antitipcation", a researched series considering various legal issues, anticipating things in the CAS appeal.He originally wrote most of the following

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Howard Jacobs, AthletesLawyer.com, actively represented Landis through the AAA hearing, and is well known for his defending many doping cases. Not wanting to dwell on specifics, he wanted to highlight some of the unique things about the atmosphere of the case:[Back to the Introduction]I think the Pepperdine hearing was a unique experience for those who were interested enough to follow a

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When we decided to roll up the tent at the end of the month, we thought it would be good to have some final thoughts on the matter, and not just from us.To that end, we've contacted a number of people from all sides of the discussion, and asked them if they had anything they'd like to say. Some said yes, some said no, some hoped to participate but found they could not, and some didn't answer

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Just when I thought I was out.........they pull me back in(link)Hey, we finally updated the Timeline, but not yet the Current Status, or the Key References.Critical Section got an email from a pal who said Floyd Landis has been taking part in weekly rides with his cycling club. CS then goes on the reminisce about Floyd's amazing stage 17 ride all those years ago. It was indeed a "white swan".

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From the people who brought you the T shirt to wear around all the bloggers of your acquaintance,More people have read this shirt... (Despair.com)we find this description of Twittering:[A] simple explanation of it is that it is instant-messaging meets a blog- whereby subscribers can follow me on my daily journey through various mundane duties, irritating conversations, pointless revelations,

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Here and ThereVeloNews (quoted by Bike World News) posts the OUCH team roster for the 2009 competitive season. Oddly, Floyd Landis is listed as new AND returning, go figure.The roster:"returning" Heath Net riders:Rory SutherlandJohn MurphyTim JohnsonKarl MenziesRoman KilunFloyd Landis"new" riders:Floyd LandisCameron EvansAndrew PinfoldBradley WhiteBobby LeaJonathan ChodroffPez also talks about

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Nobody, USADA or Landis, has said anything publicly about the settlement finalized last Friday, Dec 4th. If they aren't answering the calls that came from the press right away, neither is likely to talk to us on the record either.If anyone starts answering questions, here are a few we'd like resolved.Is there a confidentiality provision prohibiting comment, or are people just being quiet?Is

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We'll have more news on the conclusion of Landis v. USADA as it becomes available...Velonews picks it up, and steals our image. No comments yet from Landis, and VN reports:No details of the settlement were released and a USADA spokesman declined comment as to whether Landis’ decision to withdraw the suit involved any concession on the part of the agency.We understand Landis to be intensely

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Landis and USADA agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice, in a filing yesterday. "With prejudice" means Landis can't refile. This looks like they settled, but we haven't seen any statements from anyone.If USADA gave up the fine, then Landis is free to race, which is the immediate result he would have desired. I wouldn't be surprised if there were conditions not to talk about it,

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As we noted the other day, expect the reply in Landis v. USADA to turn up in Pacer in the next few days.The Boulder Report notes the Dude at the end of an evaluation of the AToC route. We agree the placement of the Palomar climb is a bummer. Maybe if they mix Idyllwild in too...Joe Papp's blog is posting articles from elsewhere about Leogrande, and has pointers to Rant and us.Podium Insight

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An emailer points us to an encounter with the Big Landowski. (Do not be drinking the white stuff while reading.) For a while, sir, interviewer MKA reminds us of Affleck channelling Olberman, or maybe Olberman doing Olberman.Landis is now alleged to have taken onFignon's hairstylist and Jan's nutritionist.(WikiRef)

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We figure from the latest scheduling order that the USADA reply in the Landis Federal case will probably be turned in Friday or Monday next week.Reuters notes CAS handled nearly 300 cases this year, a record. Half the cases dealt with football (soccer) issues, and 1/3 with doping -- and Landis mentioned as one of prominance. Matthieu Reeb, the CAS boss, expects more under the revised WADA Code

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Have a great "turkey day" everyone!Here and ThereRacejumkie wishes us all a Happy Thanksgiving too, and throws in a youtube gem and a "photo shopped" tidbit to boot.Velo Vortmax "debates" the problems and concerns many have with WADA, the UCI, and the new "bio passport" program.Bikerumor reviews recent activity in "busy" Floyd Landis' career.The New Common Sense refers to the Schumacher case and

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Here and ThereCyclingNews reports on a Thursday filing in federal court by lawyers representing Floyd Landis with this reaction from WADA head David Howman:David Howman, the WADA General Director, told AFP, "There will be no compromise made," in the fight against doping, even though the agency has nearly used up the allotted $1.8 million to litigate the Landis case.There's one on Velonews too.

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Here and ThereThe VeloNews notes that Floyd Landis' lawyers filed a motion Thursday, originally filed in September, in which Landis claimed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles that the three arbitrators in his CAS case had undisclosed conflicts of interest that may have affected the outcome of the appeal of his USADA arbitration ruling:In the motion filed on Thursday, Landis’ attorneys

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FloydLandis.com is back, sort of, as a redirect to the OUCH Sports Medicine site. We learned this via email from Rant, himself.NY Daily News ITeam Blog snidely comments on Armstrong, and does a Landis drive-by en-route.Cycling Weekly raps cyclists for offering any defense to doping charges, saying in a round-about way, "if you've been wronged, too bad, and shut up."Is there anything more

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There's some docket action, and the first hearing is pushed back from Nov 24 to maybe Dec 22d. Los Angeles attorney Timothy Martin has put an appearance for USADA, so no connection yet to HRO. Opposition papers are due Dec 8th, and reply on Dec 15.We'll update the archive a little later with copies, but there's nothing really to see.11/10/200822 STIPULATION to Continue Hearing Of, And Briefing

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We're pointed to the case of Susan Haywood by a comment: Anyone able to comment on Sue Hayward's recent award of damages?This is the first I've heard of the case, but it looks like there was an arbitration overturned along the way, and then a jury award of damages by a US Federal Court. I'm guessing the contractual basis for dispute resolution was the same USAC racing license application Floyd

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Here and ThereThe LA Times reports Catlin may be close to a urine test for HgHOn 13-Nov, Velonews notices ACE has folded shop.Rant ponders, after reading a NY Times piece, the possibility that Floyd Landis might have gotten a fairer shake in a regular courtroom.Racejunkie wonders why, if he's so afraid of French cycling fans, Lance A. would poke them with a stick. And hey Tom, slow down!!Life on

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ESPN/Bonnie Ford confirm that ACE is folding, leaving Garmin, Columbia, and BMC hung out to dry. One partial cause may have been the exit of Paul Scott from ACE, following his help with the Landis defense. We guess Scott Analytics, used by Rock, is still operating -- but if Scott was blacklisted for helping Landis, then he might still not be acceptable for these teams.Racejunkie catches us up

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-20422936459358834382008-11-03T11:21:00.000-08:002008-11-04T04:26:04.355-08:00

Cycling Fans Anonymous has interesting news. In a 30-Oct post, it suggests ACE may be folding.On 1-Nov, CFA points us to a forthcoming book, "The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping". This is supposed to be out in May, at 185 pages for $38.00 (paperback) and $140[!!!] (hardcover).US Citizens, Don't forget to vote tomorrow!Rant also exhorts us all to vote today. It's a right many have fought and

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-15025537337281731562008-11-02T05:11:00.000-08:002008-11-02T08:58:23.416-08:00

Here and ThereBikingBis notes the return of Floyd Landis to the pro peloton on the OUCH (Occupational Urgent Care and Health Sports Medical Center) Team and wonders if he will suffer the same way Tyler Hamilton did when he first made his comeback.EuroPeloton writes about the "comebacks" of Floyd Landis, Ivan Basso, and Lance Armstrong noting, among other things, that at the very least there will

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Happy Halloween!!Here and ThereFlashThe CyclingNews reports that the Floyd Landis to HealthNet deal is "done" with HealthNet as sponsor being replaced by OUCH Sports Medical Center which was co-founded by Landis friend and physician Dr. Brent Kay: After a lot of speculation, the replacement for Health Net as title sponsor of the five-time top NRC men's team is now official – OUCH Sports Medical

strbuknoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-17503457551186759902008-10-27T12:04:00.000-07:002008-10-27T19:30:27.894-07:00

Velonews published a letter by TBV about life bans and misrepresentation of the Landis case in a prior letter.It is unfortunate that Mr. Darcy (in the Oct. 24 Mailbag) feels the need to say those who disagree with him are "morally bankrupt." This seems to reflect the tenor of the times where we people can't come to different conclusions without disrespect. Mr. Darcy misstates a number of points

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-31749731833979130472008-10-22T03:51:00.000-07:002008-10-25T22:26:27.213-07:00

Here and ThereRant discusses the concept that looking too much to the past is futile with a post about Pat McQuaid's surprisingly intelligent stance on "post testing":“From the UCI’s point of view, we prefer to look forward rather than look backward,” McQuaid said in an interview with The Associated Press. “To randomly say ‘OK, let’s take all the samples from 2007 from the Tour de France and put

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In a comment, Mr. Idiot points us all at this profound illustration on the accuracy of "eyeballing" measurements. Your inaccuracy by category: Parallelogram------------Midpoint------------Bisect angle------------Triangle center------------Circle center------------Right angle------------Convergence------------ Average error: ---- (lower is better)

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DirtRoadie has been following the Gatlin case, where USADA has been making arguments that the Feds can't intervene in their world of arbitration. Now long past the point where we were involved in Olympic eligability, we're now watching summary judgment motions.DR says in mail:Attached [now in the archive] are the USOC motion for summary judgment and Gatlin response.It quickly becomes

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-74230322014731853422008-10-20T13:19:00.000-07:002008-10-21T11:54:36.048-07:00

The Judge in the Landis Federal case is being a stickler:10/17/200820 MINUTES - IN CHAMBERS by Judge Percy Anderson: Before the Court is an "Amended Motion to Vacate Arbitration Award" filed by plaintiff Floyd Landis 17 . The Court construes the Amended Motion as a Petition to Vacate Arbitration Award and will accept it, and the exhibits accompanying it 19 , for filing. Plaintiff also filed a

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-21202316189540442002008-10-17T09:50:00.001-07:002008-11-11T10:13:20.063-08:00

This post will be updated to contain a consolidated and complete docket report on the federal case. As things happen, we'll have posts that mention and discuss the new items, and also keep this up to date.[MORE]Date Filed #Docket Text 09/25/20081 MOTION to Vacate Arbitration Award ; Demand for Jury Trial [FILING FEE: $350 PAID.], filed by Petitioner Floyd Landis. Motion set for hearing on 11/3/

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-11897682829657284222008-10-16T16:06:00.000-07:002008-10-17T10:00:14.170-07:00

In Landis v USADA, CV 08-06330 PA (CWx), the Pacer report of the Docket has a few more items, and a change to the schedule.The first hearing now appears to be on November 24th.Item 17 is the properly formatted and amended complaint, and item 18 is the supporting documents.Both are now in the archive and available for free.UPDATE: exhibits now added back as item 19, but not (yet) archived.

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Happy Birthday Floyd, have a great day, the brownies are in the mail!!Here and ThereRant notes the latest doping "positive" to come from tdf retesting now taking place at the AFLD lab. He wonders if this is an "official" conclusive "A" sample, or what. Good thing the "retroactive" testing from Beijing has an end date, eight years.Later, Rant writes about "owning up" something not really so

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Finding Ways to Help Others is on a big charity ride/survivor-like event, and Landis was on hand for a send-off:Floyd Landis was present this morning to wish us all a fair well and safe riding up the coast. His words of wisdom where to ride hard the first 3 or 4 days so that we are tired out by the time we reach our last leg of our journey so we won't beat him up too much. He plans to connect

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-47516671948320119272008-10-10T11:57:00.000-07:002008-10-11T12:23:28.605-07:00

Team Soulcraft writes:It's not every day that former Tour de France champion (?) Floyd Landis comes to town for a charity ride and shows up in your bike shop to borrow your autistic mechanic's Soulcraft while there's a dog fight going on in front of him, and after the ride proclaims the Soulcraft to be "one sweet ride." But, it happened today.Soulcraft makes custom steel frames in Petaluma. I

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-39905649665907952008-10-09T18:00:00.000-07:002008-10-17T10:01:12.699-07:00

[UPDATE: See the Consolidated Docket]In developments on Landis v USADA, CV 08-06330 PA (CWx), Pacer reports a few orders, not good for Landis, but not fatal either. The main issue is not following the local rules for long briefs, so some things have been stricken pending update to correct form.You don't want to do this too often to avoid annoying the Judge.Here's the current docket pulled

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-65366389586418683082008-10-08T03:28:00.000-07:002008-12-06T17:33:16.451-08:00

Here and ThereRant does a "roundup" of his own today, and there's LOTS to talk about. He covers everything from the new Landis lawsuit to the never ending "joy" that is OP.There are a number of reports (velonews, AP) the IOC is going to retest around 5000 Beijing samples for CERA. We find it amazingly convenient this is not happening when it would affect television ratings.Velo Vortmax calls

strbuknoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-37863365718932520422008-10-07T15:30:00.001-07:002008-10-16T20:36:44.609-07:00

In a comment to our discussion of Landis v USADA, Larry points us again to a Straubel review article.As to whether this case can be decided under the FAA, I think it’s a close question. The discussion here between M and DR is a good one. You can also look at the Straubel article, in particular at footnote 113 (page 1221), and pages 1224-25 and 1250-53. I think that a good argument can be made

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-32402558262977200402008-10-07T11:21:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:36:44.610-07:00

In the long-running and excellent discussion about the legal merits of the Landis Federal Filing, we have a recent comment by DR pointing to what he thinks is Landis' best claim:In my view his strongest argument is based upon the failure of the arbitrator he chose to disclose potential conflicts.See if you can wade through this:http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0555224P.pdf Or if that

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-69567972318545277582008-10-05T05:14:00.000-07:002008-10-07T11:30:47.637-07:00

Floyd Landis riding with the Flagstaff Biking Organization yesterday. The photo is from the FBO website.Here and ThereFlagstaff Biking Organization and others rode with Floyd Landis yesterday in a Smith and Nephew sponsored event.Drunkcyclist provides the "snark'o'the week," which illustrates not everyone was happy to see Floyd come to Flagstaff yesterday. Could be worse, at least they spelled

strbuknoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-31342564771049263012008-10-03T13:48:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:36:44.611-07:00

In the irregular report, we found this temptation:The sections in the brief that show almost outright corruption and egregious incompetency and Rules violations are on pages 24-26, 32-33, and 61-64.Inquiring minds will want to know what they say. First, mid page 24:The CAS Case List also reveals the many occasions on which Mr. Young (USADA’s lawyer), has served on CAS arbitration panels before

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-61781821180630605762008-10-03T03:25:00.001-07:002008-12-06T17:33:07.715-08:00

Here and ThereRant presents a discussion about Floyd Landis' recently filed Federal lawsuit between Judge Bill Hue and "DirtRoadie". A must read for those into the case.Basil Chesterton Sinclair got Greg LeMond to consent to an interview for his blog after LeMond's "appearance" at an Interbike Lance Armsrong news conference last week. The uncut transcript is posted with some comment about a "

strbuknoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-23452249804357513312008-10-02T11:26:00.000-07:002008-10-17T10:01:56.313-07:00

Update: See our Consolidated Docket.The main access page appears to be at CM ECFThe case is filed as "Floyd Landis v. United States Anti-Doping Agency", a "Petition to Vacate Arbitration Award". Landis' attorneys of record are Kay Gunderson Reeves, of Dallas TX, who has been involved in previous rounds, and Roger G Worthington, who has made his major mark in Mesothelioma (absestos)

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com77tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-14267113092508997362008-09-30T03:38:00.000-07:002008-10-02T19:40:11.503-07:00

Here and ThereTenacious T, competing at the Track Nationals, saw Landis among the few spectators on day 1 and got a picture.awesome photo by Tenacious T Pez says the Landis-linked formerly-HealthNet team will be on Kuota's next year. The Italian designed/Taiwan (Martec) manufactured bikes were #2 at the Kona 2007 triathlon, and have high bling quotient. Not much high-end pro visibility yet

strbuknoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-209712184257128872008-09-29T21:56:00.000-07:002008-09-30T07:25:46.291-07:00

Packed with as many logos as a Pro Bike, our newest piece of kit comes in a range of capabilities. Taking a clue from the Cycling Biz, a recent innovation has been bold, new, large and EASY TO READ GRAPHICS!The informative brochure fairly screams: "don't use this at home." On the other hand, they come industrially packed in crates of six for bulk consumption.We also look forward to our

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-11398398102332184622008-09-28T09:56:00.000-07:002008-10-16T20:36:44.614-07:00

Update: Phone calls reveal the case was filed with the US District Court, Central District of California, Riverside on 3:20 PM Sep 25th, as case # CV08-06330 PA (CWx). First appearances are scheduled for 11/03/08 at 1:30pm in Courtroom 15. The papers are still not on PACER, which may take a few days. The case has been assigned to District Judge Percy Anderson and Magistrate Judge Carla

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The intrepid TBV writes the following report on his recent accident from his hospital bed. It should answer some questions readers have asked, and illustrate what a lucky guy TBV is, despite his injuries."It's only a flesh wound!", said the Black Knight.Near our house is a third mile long 10-15% slope hill that I often use for intervals. Almost at the bottom of the steepest part the road goes

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Recent cycling vs car accidents have crowded cycling blogs with all too much frequency. Unfortunately this ugly trend has hit very close to home with the injury of TBV last night in such an accident. He is resting comfortably in the hospital and may be off the bike for a while. If you ride, be vigilant, if you drive please watch out for riders, they are so vulnerable. Updates will follow.Here and

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Here and ThereVelo Vortmax finds the time after a long hiatus to comment extensively on the Landis/CAS decision which he considers an abject injustice. He criticizes Christaine Ayotte in particular and the CAS panel in general not only for its decision, but also for the prejudicial manner in which it was rendered: The CAS Panel condemned Maurice Suh, Dr. Davis, et al., in a vicious written attack

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The Tour keeps giving...The AP says the AFLD is doing more tests of tour samples of riders it considers "suspicious". Blood samples from riders that had abnormal but not positive urine CERA tests have been retrieved from the Lausanne lab and sent to the AFLD lab at Chatenay Malabry for analysis. We're of mixed reactions to this. Jerking folks around months after the end of the event is

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ESPN's Bonnie Ford talked with Landis about his and Lance's comebacks. The HealthNet/Momentum deal isn't finalized because of sponsorship issues.Here and ThereFloyd Landis was in Birmingham, AL yesterday for the Pepper Place Crits. He also represented Smith and Nephew ---who sponsored the crits--- and participated in a ride there with about 100 other mostly supportive cyclists.The Birmingham

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To read about the rumored comeback of Floyd Landis see Landis to HealthNet-Maxxis (Maybe). No NEW news on that front as of this morning.Here and ThereThe CyclingNews writes about the scientific debate surrounding Lance Armstrong. Did he or didn't he, that IS apparently the point in question.One reader note in CyclingNews' letters column wonders if doping actually works.TwoFiveFix says you can

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Some notes...A lot of comment seems to think that Landis is acting in reaction to Armstrong in some way, which is preposterous, when you think about it. Lance's choice is pretty much a bolt from the blue, where Landis has been training and planning what he'd be able to do ever since the case at CAS was concluded.The IHT/AP confirms rumors that Floyd Landis is in negotiations with Health

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No Landis Headlines for a While, Dept...Everybody is going to be talking Lance, Lance, Lance...Velonews passes on pointers to the Vanity Fair article making the announcement: Lance is saying he's coming back. God help us if there is testing issue. We will not be covering any case that may arise. There will be no shortage of others to take up that cause, should it come to the fore.Slate

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Here and ThereRant posts the eagerly awaited Part 2 of his interview with Valparaiso Sports Law Clinic professor Mike Straubel. Straubel comments on Richard Young in particular and the CAS/USADA/AAA systems of arbitration, in which there are seemingly some instances of "conflict of interest," in general:Straubel: And that’s been a criticism long made of the CAS system and the USADA/AAA panel

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Podium in Sight continues the Landis/HealthNet rumors as part of a rundown on almost all the American Pro-continental and Continental teams.Scotland on Sunday whines about Rock Racing's appearance at the Tour of Britain with Hamilton, Botero, and Sevilla. It also says Landis is likely to sign with Rock, which says a lot about the quality of research.ARStechnica reports on a study published in

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Here and ThereThe Save-A-Limb Fund announces its third annual ride, carnival, and picnic for later this month in which Floyd Landis and Bob Roll will participate. The ride will take place on Sunday September 28th at Oregon Ridge Park near Baltimore Maryland. The Save-A-Limb Fund at the Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics at Sinai Hospital is a non-profit organization whose goal is the

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Cycling Fan's Anonymous is reporting Landis was at the USPro championships, spending a lot of time with HealthNet boss Gregory Raifman. The team is looking for new sponsorship, and CFA speculates that Landis' personal sponsor Smith and Nephew may be on a list of four that the team is speaking with. We've heard earlier that Michael Ball thinks Landis is too pricey for his Rock Racing

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-7427221305790547572008-08-31T04:35:00.000-07:002008-09-03T04:17:38.403-07:00

Congratulations to Dave Zabriskie and Tyler Hamilton for winning the USPro time trial and road race respectively. Both championships are are rewards for hard work in the face of additional challenges. Well done.Here and ThereThe VeloNews says reports state Manuel Beltran's "B" sample from the Tour de France also tested positive for EPO.The CyclingNews reports that the Vuelta is the first race

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An emailer points us to a New York Times report on a medical test that has not been approved by the FDA because of a 1% false-positive rate -- the FDA takes that to mean "the test doesn't work."Dr. Berchuck of Duke said only 1 of 3,000 women has ovarian cancer. So even if a screening test had a 1 percent rate of false positives, it would mean that 30 out of 3,000 women tested might be subject to

DBrowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17718913310467614671noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31819641.post-73427473760138306262008-08-25T21:53:00.000-07:002008-08-27T21:51:54.459-07:00

Larry sends the following musing, and wonders if this may be his last opus on L'Affaire Landis.Bourbon and Beer:Why The Landis Positive Test Results May Be Meaningless(An Exercise in Hubris by Larry)Here on TBV, we've spent time and effort trying to explain how Floyd Landis could have tested positive for testosterone doping without having doped with testosterone. We've focused on things that

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NewsThe CyclingNews notes that the "John Doe vs USADA" lawsuit has been dismissed.CTV.ca posts a piece about doping at the Olympics in which it's noted that far fewer "positives" have been found than expected at this year's games.BlogsPommi shows what could potentially happen if you don't wear your helmet when you ride. He also gives us some very detailed "pictures" of himself. Keep the faith!

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NewsThe CyclingNews flashes a "truce" between the ASO and UCI:The long-running political battle between the UCI and the Grand Tour organisers appears to be moving closer to an end following the announcement on Monday of a new "UCI World Calendar" system.Under the proposed terms, participation in the 2009 and 2010 Tours de France will be governed by the agreement signed by the teams and ASO on 18

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In response to our post about Ashendon's "highly, highly unlikely" comment, we offered a figure from a presentation from Saugy of the Swiss WADA lab that challenged Ashendon's stated assumptions.Figure 1: Saugy's page 26.In response, there have been some questions where we obtained the numbers, and the answer was first by eyeball (proven good enough for Brenna), and now, by counting.Figure 2:

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NewsThe Boulder Report posts a "truthiness" quiz and Floyd Landis is NOT one of the answers.BlogsSuitcaseofcourage finally got around to reading "Positively False" and felt there was good points made by the book which if true reveal that someone has some "splainin" to do. Thanks for the kind blurb.MediaSomeone named Jeff Nordin has "published" an instantly downloadable "ebook" of Floyd Landis'

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The "highly, highly unlikely" remark from Ashendon, in Mark Zeigler's story of July 2007, provides the exclamation mark to the "of course he doped" reaction to our recent post about the hematology values. As Tenerifed snipped:“Going from 15.5 to 16.1 (in hemoglobin) is not that unusual when not competing,” Ashenden said by phone from Australia. “But it is very unusual to see an increase after a

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[UPDATE: oops! Everyplace you see "48.5", note that the actual value is 48.2. Sometimes we should look more carefully at the primary documents.]One of the arguments offered by those who think "Landis doped" comes from blood values that were presented late in the process. These never really came up in the litigation, because they aren't relevant to the issue of testosterone doping which was

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NewsThe CyclingNews notes Pat McQuaid's disgust with Spanish cycling as he blasts the federation after the Olympic EPO positive of a Spanish female cyclist. McQuaid then goes into the "way back" machine to dredge up more OP criticism, and calls on WADA's John Fahey to go after the Spanish cycling federation.The VeloNews has more comment from the UCI about the threat that cycling may be

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Text extracted from the French, and sent through google and pasted back together.[MORE]TAS TAS 2007/A/1444 & 2008/A/1465 UCI c / Iban Mayo & RFECUnion Cycliste Internationale c / Iban Mayo & Real Spanish Federation of CiclismoARBITRATION AWARDmade by theCOURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORTserving in the following composition:Chairman: Mr. Bernard Foucher, President of the Tribunal Administratif, Paris,

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NewsTAS-CAS has suspended Iban Mayo 2 years for EPO, having taken 3 tries to get the B sample to "confirm" the A sample. Press release. The full Award is in French. We've posted a machine translation separately.As Bill Hue wrote in a comment,Three counter-analyses of an initial "A" met the "letter and spirit" of the WADA Code.B sample now means C D E F etc on a single sample and B C D E etc on

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NewsThe New York Times citing the recent Nature editorial, along with other writings, says "let the Games be doped":No one denies that there are risks in taking drugs like anabolic steroids, and there is wide agreement that minors shouldn’t be allowed to take them (or other performance drugs). But the popular fear of steroid use by adults is based in large part on a few sensationalized cases,

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We encourage readers of the Berry piece and related Editorial to send informed letters to the Editors of Nature. We can be sure that those supportive of WADA's practices, and the LNDD in particular, will be sending plenty of mail critical of both pieces. NewsEmailers, and now Velonews are telling us the hushed-up fifth Tour positive is Jimmy Casper, a French rider who abandoned on L'Alpe,

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Update: were aware of some data problems and are working on a revision of this post.Inspired by the visualization that Donald Berry did in his Nature article, we'd like now to look again at the Landis data and positivity criteria.We will look at the data presented in Exhibit 26, LNDD 433-436, plus data from the Landis B sample in USADA 352, as well as the reported results from Exhibits 86, 87,

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