Yes ... why yes it is.
Pinball, Paintball, and Foosball ... I'm a fuckin' Olympic triathlete!
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Pinball, Paintball, and Foosball ... I'm a fuckin' Olympic triathlete!
Since Landis failed a drug test.......
...do you still think his win was more impressive?
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=yspsctnhdln>Team says Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone</TD></TR><TR><TD height=7><SPACER width="1" type="block" height="1"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>July 27, 2006
LONDON (AP) -- Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday on its Web site. The statement came a day after cycling's world governing body said an unidentified rider had failed a drug test during the Tour.
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...do you still think his win was more impressive?
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=yspsctnhdln>Team says Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone</TD></TR><TR><TD height=7><SPACER width="1" type="block" height="1"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>July 27, 2006
LONDON (AP) -- Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday on its Web site. The statement came a day after cycling's world governing body said an unidentified rider had failed a drug test during the Tour.
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fourteenandoh
My swing feels like an unfolding lawn chair.
I change my vote to Tiger! fuck landis
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Taosman
Your Cousin In New Mexxico
Some useful background on testosterone use by athletes and testing
used to detect it, from a 2001 New Yorker piece by Malcolm Gladwell:
http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_08_10_a_drug.htm
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Through much of the eighties and nineties, most sports organizations
conducted their drug testing only at major competitions. Athletes
taking testosterone would simply do what Johnson did, and taper off
their use in the days or weeks prior to those events. So sports
authorities began randomly showing up at athletes' houses or training
sites and demanding urine samples. To this, dopers responded by taking
extra doses of epitestosterone with their testosterone, so their T/E
would remain in balance. Testers, in turn, began treating elevated
epitestosterone levels as suspicious, too. But that still left
athletes with the claim that they were among the few with naturally
elevated testosterone. Testers, then, were forced to take multiple
urine samples, measuring an athlete's T/E ratio over several weeks.
Someone with a naturally elevated T/E ratio will have fairly
consistent ratios from week to week. Someone who is doping will have
telltale spikes--times immediately after taking shots or pills when
the level of the hormone in his blood soars. Did all these precautions
mean that cheating stopped? Of course not. Athletes have now switched
from injection to transdermal testosterone patches, which administer a
continuous low-level dose of the hormone, smoothing over the old,
incriminating spikes. The patch has another advantage: once you take
it off, your testosterone level will drop rapidly, returning to
normal, depending on the dose and the person, in as little as an hour.
"It's the peaks that get you caught," says Don Catlin, who runs the
U.C.L.A. Olympic Analytical Laboratory. "If you took a pill this
morning and an unannounced test comes this afternoon, you'd better
have a bottle of epitestosterone handy. But, if you are on the patch
and you know your own pharmacokinetics, all you have to do is pull it
off." In other words, if you know how long it takes for you to get
back under the legal limit and successfully stall the test for that
period, you can probably pass the test. And if you don't want to take
that chance, you can just keep your testosterone below 6:1, which, by
the way, still provides a whopping performance benefit. "The bottom
line is that only careless and stupid people ever get caught in drug
tests," Charles Yesalis says. "The lite athletes can hire top medical
and scientific people to make sure nothing bad happens, and you can't
catch them."
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used to detect it, from a 2001 New Yorker piece by Malcolm Gladwell:
http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_08_10_a_drug.htm
****************
Through much of the eighties and nineties, most sports organizations
conducted their drug testing only at major competitions. Athletes
taking testosterone would simply do what Johnson did, and taper off
their use in the days or weeks prior to those events. So sports
authorities began randomly showing up at athletes' houses or training
sites and demanding urine samples. To this, dopers responded by taking
extra doses of epitestosterone with their testosterone, so their T/E
would remain in balance. Testers, in turn, began treating elevated
epitestosterone levels as suspicious, too. But that still left
athletes with the claim that they were among the few with naturally
elevated testosterone. Testers, then, were forced to take multiple
urine samples, measuring an athlete's T/E ratio over several weeks.
Someone with a naturally elevated T/E ratio will have fairly
consistent ratios from week to week. Someone who is doping will have
telltale spikes--times immediately after taking shots or pills when
the level of the hormone in his blood soars. Did all these precautions
mean that cheating stopped? Of course not. Athletes have now switched
from injection to transdermal testosterone patches, which administer a
continuous low-level dose of the hormone, smoothing over the old,
incriminating spikes. The patch has another advantage: once you take
it off, your testosterone level will drop rapidly, returning to
normal, depending on the dose and the person, in as little as an hour.
"It's the peaks that get you caught," says Don Catlin, who runs the
U.C.L.A. Olympic Analytical Laboratory. "If you took a pill this
morning and an unannounced test comes this afternoon, you'd better
have a bottle of epitestosterone handy. But, if you are on the patch
and you know your own pharmacokinetics, all you have to do is pull it
off." In other words, if you know how long it takes for you to get
back under the legal limit and successfully stall the test for that
period, you can probably pass the test. And if you don't want to take
that chance, you can just keep your testosterone below 6:1, which, by
the way, still provides a whopping performance benefit. "The bottom
line is that only careless and stupid people ever get caught in drug
tests," Charles Yesalis says. "The lite athletes can hire top medical
and scientific people to make sure nothing bad happens, and you can't
catch them."
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FYI, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) changed the acceptable ratio from 6:1 to 4:1 during 2005.
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jadudley03
BuckAlum01
I think think we all know how accurate and thourough the media is, so I wouldn't start jumping to conclusions just yet. Not to mention the possibility of sabotage since the European's love us American's so much. If it turns out to be true, then shame on him, but I think I will wait a little while for the verdict.
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BuckeyePride
All-Ohio
This test result may be due to the treatment he received for his hips... who knows. let the man explain first.
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fourteenandoh
My swing feels like an unfolding lawn chair.
That'd be great, but where is he? He should have made a statement already.
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He's been in Germany for a visit with a doctor regarding his hip, and he was on his way back to America for a spot on Leno last night, which was abruptly cancelled after the story broke.
ESPN played several minutes of an interview conducted by telephone yesterday though, and Landis denied taking any performance enhancers. He also noted that he is a realist, and that the Europeans do not like the American cyclists, so he hinted at tampering (though he did not actually say it), and offered the fact that the European agency would release such damning information after testing his 'a' sample, but not the 'b' sample. Landis sounded defeated, as though he knows he can't beat this, but refused to acknowledge taking any performance enhancers. He feels he's a victim in this, since the powers that be that control cycling were so quick to smear his name, without talking to him first, without testing the 'b' sample, and without considering that the test results were out of whack to begin with.
On that matter, the test results are peculiar. Landis's sample did not contain elevated levels of testosterone, but rather decreased levels of epitestosterone. Having an unbalanced T/E ratio is suspicious if the T is high, but in this case, it isn't. The E is very low, which could be a result of either his cortisone shots for his hip, which were approved by Tour officials, or the shots of Jack he drank after Stage 16, since he was drowning his sorrows after thinking he blew his chance.
Landis passed six other drug tests administered thoughout the duration of the Tour, and passed 14 in the time between this years tour and last years.
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