pick6 wrote:
Bman925 wrote:
The main difference here is that WTC is
not a governing body. It is a company that elected to use the USADA to assist in doping controls. People have shown that USADA has not done a very good job of this for WTC. Following a review of the information provided by USADA and a serious conversation with their attorneys, my belief is this:
WTC will fire the USADA in their role as doping authority inasmuch as they have admitted as part of the Armstrong case they cannot provide an analytical positive. WTC will do its best to put together a legitimate anti-doping procedure using independent experts and reliable laboratories.
Brian
There's a simple answer to this: It won't happen. Why? Because WTC is a WADA signatory, which you missed in all this. They're not going to pull out of that. They cant fire USADA, as USADA falls under WADA. USADA also didn't admit they can't provide an analytical positive; Most of the samples during armstrongs time were administered by UCI; which armstrong wouldnt give USADA access to. If they did, and with the new EPO tests, it's almost a lock that he'd test positive if the samples from the tours were available for retesting by USADA.
Lance is done racing except his own series and the occasional unsanctioned race.
Just a couple of things:
Just because you are a WADA signatory now doesn't mean you have to be one forever. I haven't missed this. WTC like any company can do whatever they want. If that means blowing off WADA as well as USADA in favor of a different testing regimen there is no reason this should be a problem. Let's face it, WADA's record in catching cheats is lousy or they would have "cleaned up" cycling long ago.
As far as there being an analytical positive in the report that any lawyer worth his salt couldn't tear to shreds, please point it out to me. There was a post earlier where an attorney said that most of what was presented in the report was so poor that he "wished he was still a trial attorney".
I believe that Lance Armstrong doped. I also believe he will never admit it. All I'm saying is that after a substantial penalty and under a certain set of circumstances he could race again. I, personally, wouldn't mind seeing it.
Brian