Landis loses appeal

[Oggiedoggie]

AP is reporting Landis lost his appeal.

No link yet.

 

[friend of a friend]

big shock there

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Go ahead and nuke this thread, too.

I was a couple seconds late on the trigger.

 

[GB-Hack]

Here's a link, report says the vote was 2-1 against. He'll be out until February 2009.

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/news/story?id=3029089

You started yours first Oggie. Your thread.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Wow, FOUR threads started around the same time on the same topic. d_bs for everyone!

 

[friend of a friend]

I had to choose between this thread and one started by rok. It was a no-brainer.

 

[Beaker]

Wow, FOUR threads started around the same time on the same topic. d_bs for everyone!

Is that some sort of record?

 

[GB-Hack]

Does anyone know how his book sales were? He's run up a huge bill In what is now a failed effort.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I had to choose between this thread and one started by rok. It was a no-brainer.

Then you should have posted on rok's

 

[friend of a friend]

Well done, Meat.

 

[GB-Hack]

Is this what finally closes the book on cycling in the U.S., or do riders like Levi Leipheimer manage to carry the sport forward.

I know Discovery is out now, is there any company in the U.S. that would think about forming a new team?

 

[Idaho]

Slipstream will be the new U.S. team on the international tour. But they won't be fully accepted for another year. They've got a decent lineup already -- not G.C. contendor type stuff, but decent -- and will be strong in a year or two.

The sports -- because of greedy, cheating, selfish individuals and a few cutthroat cheating, greedy, selfish teams -- will be hurting on a global scale financially for a few years. but it will survive. It never has been and never will be a prominent sport. But eventually sponsors will hop back on after (hopefully) it stays clean for a time.

 

[friend of a friend]

Agreed on all points, Idaho.

 

[Bubbler]

Slipstream will be the new U.S. team on the international tour. But they won't be fully accepted for another year. They've got a decent lineup already -- not G.C. contendor type stuff, but decent -- and will be strong in a year or two.

The sports -- because of greedy, cheating, selfish individuals and a few cutthroat cheating, greedy, selfish teams -- will be hurting on a global scale financially for a few years. but it will survive. It never has been and never will be a prominent sport. But eventually sponsors will hop back on after (hopefully) it stays clean for a time.

To be honest, Idaho, I think you're the cleanest American cyclist. I'll look forward to seeing you tackling the uphill climb to Pau in the Pyrenees next summer.

 

[GB-Hack]

So is this the bottom of the pit here? Is there any way this can get any worse? I don't see how it can what with Landis having to give his title back, but you'd know better than I.

 

[Mayfly]

I'm glad this cheat got what he had coming to him. Now only if sports can catch the rest that have the ire of public opinion on them.

 

[Idaho]

Slipstream will be the new U.S. team on the international tour. But they won't be fully accepted for another year. They've got a decent lineup already -- not G.C. contendor type stuff, but decent -- and will be strong in a year or two.

The sports -- because of greedy, cheating, selfish individuals and a few cutthroat cheating, greedy, selfish teams -- will be hurting on a global scale financially for a few years. but it will survive. It never has been and never will be a prominent sport. But eventually sponsors will hop back on after (hopefully) it stays clean for a time.

To be honest, Idaho, I think you're the cleanest American cyclist. I'll look forward to seeing you tackling the uphill climb to Pau in the Pyrenees next summer.

Ha! I'm a known sufferer of a cycling disease I discovered and named -- CCFSS. Can't Climb for Sh!t Syndrome.

I have faith in guys like Dave Z, Levi (who I am scheduled to ride with, interview and undergo some testing with next week and will be sure to ask him about the Landis stuff and his status as a free agent) and most of the domestic pros. I think the culture was so corrupt for a decade or so that if you weren't taking EPO or blood doping you weren't able to be competitive. And with poor rules and testing, it became 'acceptable' for many athletes.

And, after the levels of performance got so high, even when the doping tests got better and the athletes began to realize this wasn't the same as taking vitamins or drinking a whey protein shake, there were some desperate cyclists and doctors who found ways to circumvent the rules.

Can it get worse? Of course it can. Another year of yellow jerseys getting ripped off the back of cyclists just a few days away from glory will scare away more sponsors and more corporate support of races. But, I hope, cyclists are beginning to see the folly of their ways now that salaries are shrinking, teams are folding and races are dying.

 

[Ace]

I didn't realize Floyd Landis had any appeal.

 

[Cansportschick]

In Canada, former cycler Jeanson admits to doping. This story was on the National last night (CBC's newscast), but here is the story:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2007/09/20/jeanson-doping.html

 

[ondeadline]

Can we now officially ignore the Tour de France?