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Oh No!I killed the Wabbit!You were expecting a happy ending?Ga-Ga-Ga-Ga-Ga-uh-Good-- So Long.The site will remain live as long as blogger keeps it, and we'll try to get it archived into the archive.org wayback machine. Comments will also remain open as long as anyone wishes to use them.

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Hey, it's over.We know what the official word has been about the Landis case -- and the Federal case that might have looked into how we got that word through arbitration has been settled on terms that let Landis race right away, and USADA not to have to explain.We also have our own access to the testimony, arguments and exhibits, and our many long-running discussions about the case.[MORE]A long

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Starbuck, before Battlestar Galactica, coffee, and TBV, was Capt. Ahab's first mate on the Pequod.What I will remember from my stint here, and what I think may be the point of all of "this" , is the people. The memories of all of the readers and contributors, all of those people who gave of their time and effort because they so strongly believed in a cause, in a just cause in their

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THE BELL TOLLSFinal Thought on the Landis CaseBill HuePerchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that....No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the

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Marc is a retired American living in Paris who joined us at the time of the Ferret.My involvement in this fascinating struggle began on THAT day in July 2006. I had recently moved to Paris, and my in-laws were visiting from Connecticut. They had a whole lot more energy than I did, so on that day I'd begged out of whatever sightseeing forced march they'd planned. I didn't do it in order to

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Let me ask you.Have you ever held a position in an argument past the point of comfort?Have you ever defended a way of life you were on the verge of exhausting?Have you ever given service to a creed you no longer utterly believed?Have you ever told a girl that you loved her and felt the faint nausea of eroding conviction?I have.That's an interesting moment. --John Patrick Shanley1Guess you

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Wolfram Meier-Augenstein testified for Landis at the AAA hearing. He is an expert in isotope ratio spectrometry, invented a number of the techniques, and is widely published. He also sent us a short, direct responses to the topics we suggested, and this longer piece, which we have reformatted. In the cover letter, he writes:I have attached a slightly amended version of my "who watches the

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Howdy, pardner!Bing Crosby sings the theme song better than we can.Quickrelease thinks there's something fishy.Rant gives us a nice send off.The Boulder Report gives a fond farewell. If we were pedantic sorts, we might complain about being called Southern Californian, which is like calling someone in Gunnison a front-ranger. But that would be unnappreciative: Lindsay has kept his own counsel and

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Wolfram Meier-Augenstein testified for Landis at the AAA hearing. He is an expert in isotope ratio spectrometry, invented a number of the techniques, and is widely published. He sent us some short, direct responses to the topics we suggested, and a longer piece which we'll publish separately.On the Merits of the Landis caseThe data produced by LNDD are scientifically flawed (ambiguous

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Dan Rosen's Rant Your Head Off predated us by a few days, but he was smart enough to avoid being daily, and to have a wider focus. The experience led to a book. The wisdom of being sporadic helped him avoid burnout, and the wider focus lets him evade the sell-by-date that came with our narrower interests.You Can’t Fight City HallThere’s a certain genre of Hollywood B movies and pulp fiction

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Joe Papp is an American sometime-professional cyclist who was busted for testosterone use and testified for USADA at the AAA hearing. He has openly admitted his own guilt.When TBV invited me to share my thoughts on the puzzle that was the Landis Affair, I eagerly accepted – though weeks passed before I could finally articulate my perspective on the case.[MORE]As I said during the arbitration

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Arnie Baker MD (ret.), is a prolific author of cycling training and medical information. He was Landis' first coach in California. On hearing the accusations, he worked actively on interpreting the available information for the defense, and prepared the well known presentations and various versions of The Wiki Defense publication.Landis’s LegacyExposing a Flawed Anti-Doping System (For more

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Bruce Goldberger Phd, is prominent forensic toxicologist, and lab director who testified for Landis at both hearings. Prior to involvement in the Landis case, he'd been invited to apply as a candidate to replace Catlin as Director of the UCLA WADA laboratory.As many people know, I was reluctant to get involved in the Landis case as I do not work for (and never have) an anti-doping laboratory.

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Spinopsys Phil, an Australian self-described Floyd-basher, sent these regrets, and made good on his promise of mention at Cycling Central.[Back to the Introduction]I really appreciate you asking. First off congratulations of a fine blog and more importantly a fine example of what media might look like in the future. You've demonstrated that long form journalism in the digital age does not end

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John Amory MD, is a leading andrologist (male hormone specialist) who testified for Landis in both hearings, arguing the metabolism of testosterone as documented in all reviewed studies does not have divergences between the adiols claimed in the test values. Amory had served on USADA anti-doping review boards prior to the Landis case. In response to a specific question, he replied, "I would

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La Cronica de Hoy says Landis/OUCH-Maxxis will participate in the Tour of Mexico in March, following the Amgen Tour of California.Lancaster Online's big news of the year roundup has Landis' loss at CAS an also-ran story, behind: the economy, the election, some murders and fatal accidents, a politician retiring, a fraud case, and closing of a local landmark retailer. And the Phillies.Cyclisme

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I'd gotten "Bigger, Faster, Stronger" for Christmas, and was watching it in the morning. I'd paused it yesterday at about the 1:05 mark, when filmmaker Chris Bell's brother Mark was talking about lying to kids on the football team he was coaching about whether he took steroids.Last night, we see the news that other brother Mike "Mad Dog" Bell was dead at age 37.This morning, as I unpaused the

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Maurice Suh and Daniel Weiss represented Landis at both the AAA hearing and the CAS appeal. Rather than write anew, they pointed us to a piece in the Los Angeles Daily Journal in January 2008, from before the CAS hearing. We hadn't seen it before.[Back to the Introduction]Playing Hardballby Maurice Suh and Daniel WeissSome extracts:The phrase ``presumed innocent until proven guilty'' is

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Rational Head took long part in the scientific discussions at the Daily Peloton Forums. He, like Christiane Ayotte, found he had no time to say more.[Back to the Introduction]Thanks for the invitation.At various times I expressed my thoughts at DPF on all the topics you listed. Unfortunately, I am going through a period when I simply don’t have much time to participate even in the DPF

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US Air Force Major (for identification only, yada, yada) John Gilliland wrote an overlooked piece for us dealing with prosecutorial discretion. He is an Air Force judge advocate, involved in numerous drug prosecutions involving urinalysis testing.[Back to the Introduction]In a cover letter, he writes:A bit of context for my piece: my office, which is the prosecution function for my Air Force

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Duckstrap is a consultant to pharmaceutical companies on setting up statistically useful and regulatory compliant development evaluation. He's looked at the available data along with us and heavily participated in the discussion. He too makes reference to the Berry argument.[Back to the Introduction]How does the Landis case look from the vantage of two years’ perspective? Muddy. I submit

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Klaas Faber is a widely published author on statistics for accreditation of chemometry measures. He's looked at the Landis case since it became public. He cites below the editorial in Nature by Donald Berry. (Our posts referencing Berry)[Back to the Introduction]Laboratories have arranged that they don't need to give the full data, in the WADA TD2003LDOC. In contrast, the Dutch Forensic

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Carlton Reid is a UK-based cycling media mogul.[Back to the Introduction]Trust But Verify is closing, but I don't feel closure. And if I also feel somewhat bitter and twisted, that's nothing to how Floyd Landis must have felt since the beginning of this sorry saga.I came into this subject equipped with standard-issue, media-myopia goggles. WADA was pure, accused athletes were dirty, cheating scum

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WADAWatch was started because the sometime-jurist author was taken aback by what he believes is the horrible wording of the WADA Code. It intrigued him enough to take vacation time to go to a WADA Conference for the press and meet and speak to many of the principals. His meta-legal analyses of The Code seem to us essential reading to anyone interested in rationalizing The Code. (Unfortunately,

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Christiane Ayotte is the director of the Montreal WADA lab, and testified for USADA at both the AAA and CAS hearings. She quickly sent a brief reply to our solicitation.[Back to the Introduction]Thanks for the invitation.All what I had to say in relation to the findings reported by Paris, the interpretation of the results, all the arguments raised by the athlete's experts is totally

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