So the USADA lawyers grilled Landis today about the manager call; when did he know about it, when did he tell the lawyers, when did he fire the manager, and why did they wait to fire the manager until after Lemond spilled it all on the witness stand. The reason to ask Landis all these questions is because it "goes to his credibility".
Excuse me, but I thought the hearing was about the credibility of the only thing that mattered, the test results, and indirectly the testing lab. Either the results are help up and Landis is executed, or they are overturned for technical reasons (or just plain screwups), and Landis keeps his yellow t-shirt souvineer he got visiting France last year.
The test results are the only issue. Tour riders aren't bounced for being credible or not credible, and thank God for that. What Landis did from a few minutes after crossing the finish line in Paris last July and donating the appropriate samples as required or requested has nothing to do with anything. For better or worse, this isn't the NFL.
So, the USADA lawyers spend part of their precious 23 hours allotted for questioning during the hearing to go over truly scandalous, but irrelevent, behavior from last week.
Again, I have to ask the question, is this because this is all they got? What have they presented to back up the validity of the tests and the reliability of the standards. I think everyone would have to admit the defenses' points that what is considered a failing level in France for some of the isotope ratios is a passing level at the UCLA lab. What does that mean for real world situations? Where is a truly worldwide acceptable value? Where is the USADA response?
I so thought that this hearing would be about data and protocols and statistics and science. Instead, it is the Jerry Springer Show in Pepperdine, just with no women ripping the clothes off of each other over some redneck, unemployed bubba in a wife beater t-shirt.
Color me confused and disappointed.
Behold the turtle! He makes progess only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant)
GET OFF THE F*%KING WALL!!!!!!! (Doug Stern)
Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare)
Excuse me, but I thought the hearing was about the credibility of the only thing that mattered, the test results, and indirectly the testing lab. Either the results are help up and Landis is executed, or they are overturned for technical reasons (or just plain screwups), and Landis keeps his yellow t-shirt souvineer he got visiting France last year.
The test results are the only issue. Tour riders aren't bounced for being credible or not credible, and thank God for that. What Landis did from a few minutes after crossing the finish line in Paris last July and donating the appropriate samples as required or requested has nothing to do with anything. For better or worse, this isn't the NFL.
So, the USADA lawyers spend part of their precious 23 hours allotted for questioning during the hearing to go over truly scandalous, but irrelevent, behavior from last week.
Again, I have to ask the question, is this because this is all they got? What have they presented to back up the validity of the tests and the reliability of the standards. I think everyone would have to admit the defenses' points that what is considered a failing level in France for some of the isotope ratios is a passing level at the UCLA lab. What does that mean for real world situations? Where is a truly worldwide acceptable value? Where is the USADA response?
I so thought that this hearing would be about data and protocols and statistics and science. Instead, it is the Jerry Springer Show in Pepperdine, just with no women ripping the clothes off of each other over some redneck, unemployed bubba in a wife beater t-shirt.
Color me confused and disappointed.
Behold the turtle! He makes progess only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant)
GET OFF THE F*%KING WALL!!!!!!! (Doug Stern)
Brevity is the soul of wit. (William Shakespeare)