Assuming that Landis did take testosterone prior to stage 17 (that is what the evidence indicates), does this make any sense? He needed a miracle at that point and if the truth is the same as what the available evidence indicates, would any rational biker needing a miracle at that point chose testosterone? My (limited) understanding of this stuff is that the effects of doping with testosterone are primarily long term. There seems to be some anecdotal evidence of positive, short term effects (and maybe Floyd has personal experience with the substance and had reason to believe that it would be helpful) - maybe.
I'm just curious as to whether or not the most obvious interpretation of the available evidence makes any sense.
A related question. If Landis did take the drug surely he would know that this was going to show up in testing down the road. In this case I would expect anyone with an IQ higher than their age would be concocting a better story than the one that we have been hearing from the Landis crowd.
From my position of limited knowledge, the way this has played out doesn't make sense. But I will admit that 'the French lab did it' seems equally unlikely.
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Assuming that Landis did take testosterone prior to stage 17 (that is what the evidence indicates), does this make any sense? He needed a miracle at that point and if the truth is the same as what the available evidence indicates, would any rational biker needing a miracle at that point chose testosterone? My (limited) understanding of this stuff is that the effects of doping with testosterone are primarily long term. There seems to be some anecdotal evidence of positive, short term effects (and maybe Floyd has personal experience with the substance and had reason to believe that it would be helpful) - maybe.
I'm just curious as to whether or not the most obvious interpretation of the available evidence makes any sense.
A related question. If Landis did take the drug surely he would know that this was going to show up in testing down the road. In this case I would expect anyone with an IQ higher than their age would be concocting a better story than the one that we have been hearing from the Landis crowd.
From my position of limited knowledge, the way this has played out doesn't make sense. But I will admit that 'the French lab did it' seems equally unlikely.
Thanks.
dave
Bonjour Dave,
This question was answered one week ago. I sugest you to read all the message since the day of the A sample result
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Bonjour Dave,
This question was answered one week ago. I sugest you to read all the message since the day of the A sample result
Give the guy a break. He may work for a living.
Steve
I think it is important. Suppose he don't know that one can' say "The Landis problem" ? ; )
I don't understand your 'Landis problem' comment. But thank you so much for the very useful suggestion that I read all of the messages since late July. I will get right on that one just as soon as I have finished my complete reading of all of wikapaedia.com.
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>Bonjour Dave, > >This question was answered one week ago. I sugest you to read all the >message since the day of the A sample result
Give the guy a break. He may work for a living.
Steve
I think it is important. Suppose he don't know that one can' say "The Landis problem" ? ; )
I don't understand your 'Landis problem' comment. But thank you so much for the very useful suggestion that I read all of the messages since late July. I will get right on that one just as soon as I have finished my complete reading of all of wikapaedia.com.
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Don't bother. Taking testosterone as he has been charged makes little sense. Some have chalked it up to desperation. So you have to believe that he's either foolish or--he's foolish. I've spent more time than I should have reading these posts--save your time. There's no logic to be found, and the rationale (absent a confession--now unlikely since lawyers are already involved) is not likely to emerge.
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I think it is important. Suppose he don't know that one can' say "The Landis problem" ? ; )
I don't understand your 'Landis problem' comment. But thank you so much
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I will get right on that one just as soon as I have finished my complete reading of all of wikapaedia.com.
dave
Don't bother. Taking testosterone as he has been charged makes little sense. Some have chalked it up to desperation. So you have to believe that he's either foolish or--he's foolish. I've spent more time than I should have reading these posts--save your time. There's no logic to be found, and the rationale (absent a confession--now unlikely since lawyers are already involved) is not likely to emerge.
Steve
Thanks - I did spend some time on further reading of a portion of all the posted stuff here on RBR. There was one explanation buried back there somewhere that made some sense. The essense was that the entire cycling profession (or at least Floyd) is on some kind of doping regimen which includes the illegal substances plus other stuff that masks the illegal stuff. Given that, the speculation is that Floyd simply screwed up and failed to take the masking agent (or in this case it might well have been an 'enhancing agent'😉.
At least that line of reasoning is logical (IMHO).
I don't understand your 'Landis problem' comment. But thank you so much for the very useful suggestion that I read all of the messages since late July. I will get right on that one just as soon as I have finished my complete reading of all of wikapaedia.com.
At least reading Wiki won't make your head explode. Well, much...
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Give the guy a break. He may work for a living.
Steve
I think it is important. Suppose he don't know that one can' say "The Landis problem" ? ; )
I don't understand your 'Landis problem' comment. But thank you so much for the very useful suggestion that I read all of the messages since late July. I will get right on that one just as soon as I have finished my complete reading of all of wikapaedia.com.
Congratulations, you have reached the end of the internet.
The bottom line is that everyone else has figured that this makes absolutely no sense whatever.
If Landis knowingly doped why did he go ahead win the stage and get busted. He isn't especially well educated, but he ain't stupid and he sure as hell knows how bike racing works.
It is considered unlikely that whoever at the lab who has been getting bribed by l'Equipe to release positive results would take the next step and start creating them.
In a sport that depends as heavily on cooperation as cycling, I would expect that anyone hoping to win the tour would not dope noticeably more than his competitors.
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I don't understand your 'Landis problem' comment. But thank you so much
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I will get right on that one just as soon as I have finished my complete reading of all of wikapaedia.com.
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Don't bother. Taking testosterone as he has been charged makes little sense. Some have chalked it up to desperation. So you have to believe that he's either foolish or--he's foolish. I've spent more time than I should have reading these posts--save your time. There's no logic to be found, and the rationale (absent a confession--now unlikely since lawyers are already involved) is not likely to emerge.
Steve
Thanks - I did spend some time on further reading of a portion of all the posted stuff here on RBR. There was one explanation buried back there somewhere that made some sense. The essense was that the entire cycling profession (or at least Floyd) is on some kind of doping regimen which includes the illegal substances plus other stuff that masks the illegal stuff. Given that, the speculation is that Floyd simply screwed up and failed to take the masking agent (or in this case it might well have been an 'enhancing agent'😉.
At least that line of reasoning is logical (IMHO).
dave
Or, concerning that for staying below the doping limits they have some security margin, they just made this margin a little bit smaller just in order to speed Floyd's recovery somewhat more. Maybe because there was a real danger that he'd loose even more time the day after he bonked.
They just might not have expected his Epitestosterone level to be that low, maybe because of the bonk. I doubt they are testing this. And the combination of these two incidences led to the elevated T/E ratio.
What I like in this explanation is that it leaves intact the factor of human strength and willpower in Floyd's ride on stage 17, which I still think was a great achievement - doping or not. And if you could dope in a way to make such a ride possible on a regular basis with a real chance of not being caught, we'd see many more people doing this.
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Don't bother. Taking testosterone as he has been charged makes little sense. Some have chalked it up to desperation. So you have to believe that he's either foolish or--he's foolish. I've spent more time than I should have reading these posts--save your time. There's no logic to be found, and the rationale (absent a confession--now unlikely since lawyers are already involved) is not likely to emerge.
Steve
Thanks - I did spend some time on further reading of a portion of all the posted stuff here on RBR. There was one explanation buried back there somewhere that made some sense. The essense was that the entire cycling profession (or at least Floyd) is on some kind of doping regimen which includes the illegal substances plus other stuff that masks the illegal stuff. Given that, the speculation is that Floyd simply screwed up and failed to take the masking agent (or in this case it might well have been an 'enhancing agent'😉.
At least that line of reasoning is logical (IMHO).
dave
Or, concerning that for staying below the doping limits they have some security margin, they just made this margin a little bit smaller just in order to speed Floyd's recovery somewhat more. Maybe because there was a real danger that he'd loose even more time the day after he bonked.
They just might not have expected his Epitestosterone level to be that low, maybe because of the bonk. I doubt they are testing this. And the combination of these two incidences led to the elevated T/E ratio.
What I like in this explanation is that it leaves intact the factor of human strength and willpower in Floyd's ride on stage 17, which I still think was a great achievement - doping or not. And if you could dope in a way to make such a ride possible on a regular basis with a real chance of not being caught, we'd see many more people doing this.
Doping? I don't think we'll see a many more people riding like that, doped or not. We've had a hundred years of doped riders and very few of them ever did anything like that and the ones who could didn't do it often.
