tibby.dude
05-08-2006, 08:30 PM
Floyd Landis was fired by his team and the Tour de France no longer considered him its champion Saturday after his second doping sample tested positive for higher-than-allowable levels of testosterone.
The samples contained synthetic testosterone, indicating that it came from an outside source.
"I have received a text message from Chatenay-Malabry lab that indicates the 'B' sample of Floyd Landis' urine confirms testosterone was taken in an exogenous way," Pierre Bordry, who heads the French anti-doping council, told The Associated Press shortly after the "B" sample results were released.
Lab head Jacques De Ceaurriz said the isotope testing procedure was "foolproof."
"No error is possible in isotopic readings," he told the AP.
Landis had claimed the testosterone was "natural and produced by my own organism," and once again maintained his innocence.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/more/08/05/landis.positive.ap/index.html
The idiot.
The samples contained synthetic testosterone, indicating that it came from an outside source.
"I have received a text message from Chatenay-Malabry lab that indicates the 'B' sample of Floyd Landis' urine confirms testosterone was taken in an exogenous way," Pierre Bordry, who heads the French anti-doping council, told The Associated Press shortly after the "B" sample results were released.
Lab head Jacques De Ceaurriz said the isotope testing procedure was "foolproof."
"No error is possible in isotopic readings," he told the AP.
Landis had claimed the testosterone was "natural and produced by my own organism," and once again maintained his innocence.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/more/08/05/landis.positive.ap/index.html
The idiot.