August 18 -- Tyler Hamilton wins gold at Athens August 27 -- Cyclingnews.com reports Phonak makes an offer to Floyd Landis September 21 -- Tyler's failed blood tests at Vuelta and A sample at Athens
Why did Phonak suddenly express interest in Landis at the end of the Olympics? I have to wonder if Phonak probably knew Hamilton failed his Athens blood test, and they went shopping for a domestique with GT potential as a backup to replace Hamilton if he got suspended. If Phonak was informed privately of Tyler's "A" result, why did or would the IOC withhold the result from the public until the Vuelta results came out?
al-i have to wonder if probably you have been into the tubular tire cement one too many times.next report will be based on a phonak memo given to dan rather. ....
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The timing is interesting, is it not?
August 18 -- Tyler Hamilton wins gold at Athens August 27 -- Cyclingnews.com reports Phonak makes an offer to Floyd Landis September 21 -- Tyler's failed blood tests at Vuelta and A sample at
Athens
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Why did Phonak suddenly express interest in Landis at the end of the Olympics? I have to wonder if Phonak probably knew Hamilton failed his Athens blood test, and they went shopping for a domestique with GT potential as a backup to replace Hamilton if he got suspended.
August 18 -- Tyler Hamilton wins gold at Athens August 27 -- Cyclingnews.com reports Phonak makes an offer to Floyd Landis September 21 -- Tyler's failed blood tests at Vuelta and A sample at Athens
Why did Phonak suddenly express interest in Landis at the end of the Olympics? I have to wonder if Phonak probably knew Hamilton failed his Athens blood test, and they went shopping for a domestique with GT potential as a backup to replace Hamilton if he got suspended. If Phonak was informed privately of Tyler's "A" result, why did or would the IOC withhold the result from the public until the Vuelta results came out?
ICO would hold the results from the public till they had the results of the B test. IOC notified UCI (the federation for that particular sport), USOC (Tyler's Olympic team). Presumably, USOC would have notified Tyler. With no olympic standing, Phonak would not have been notified by IOC. If Tyler or UCI notified Phonak, they might have known about the Athens test, but they appeared surprised. Landis appeared to have more potential than Tyler anyway, so it seemed a good move on their part, particularly with Tyler having only one or two years left on his tour career. Speculation during the TDF that Landis would be some other teams number one next year.
The Athens test was disclosed with the Vuelta poistiive A, UCI apparently not as concerned about privacy pending the B confirmation.
"bobby carter" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:
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al-i have to wonder if probably you have been into the tubular tire cement one too many times.next report will be based on a phonak memo given to dan rather. ...
Quoted message said:
The timing is interesting, is it not?
August 18 -- Tyler Hamilton wins gold at Athens August 27 -- Cyclingnews.com reports Phonak makes an offer to Floyd Landis September 21 -- Tyler's failed blood tests at Vuelta and A sample at
Athens
Bobby - you got some weird aversion to capital letters? Regardless, let's hear your explanation why the IOC kept mum until Vuelta announced.
"bobby carter" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:
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al-i have to wonder if probably you have been into the tubular tire cement one too many times.next report will be based on a phonak memo given to dan rather. ...
Quoted message said:
The timing is interesting, is it not?
August 18 -- Tyler Hamilton wins gold at Athens August 27 -- Cyclingnews.com reports Phonak makes an offer to Floyd Landis September 21 -- Tyler's failed blood tests at Vuelta and A sample at
Athens
Bobby - you got some weird aversion to capital letters? Regardless, let's hear your explanation why the IOC kept mum until Vuelta announced.
IOC claimed it took them that long to get a panel of "experts" together to decide the test was poasitive. IOW, there is some subjectivity in determinging the result.
Also, major teams need more than one GC rider these days if they intend to contest more than one GT.
