it's not you, it's me. i just don't want to get hurt...

I keep attempting to write further on the Landis affair but every time I start to search for words I simply lose interest. I guess I don't want to have too much more invested when we discover that he is in fact a dic... sorry, a doper.

But as w/ every case, there is a grassy knoll! I found a blurb on Cadence Cycling's site regarding the ratio measurement. It's interesting:

INFORMATION IN FAVOR OF LANDIS
Cadence owners Matt Heitmann and Brian Walton were interviewed on
today's edition of the Fox News Morning Show whereupon they revealed
some new information gleaned from investigations conducted on Cadence's
behalf yesterday.

Cadence
learned through an endocrinologist yesterday that Floyd Landis' T/E
ratio (testosterone:epitestosterone) was abnormally high but only
because his epitestosterone levels were abnormally low.

A low
epitestosterone level can be accounted for (in many cases) by the use
of anti-inflammatories like Celebrex, and certainly by Cortison, and
alcohol. All three of these substances Floyd has admitted to taking
during this year's Tour de France.

In short, the A sample that came back above UCI legal T/E level of 4:1 is, in this case, not due to inflated testosterone,
but due to deflated epitestosterone. The deflated epitestosterone
levels may be accounted for by legal and approved substances which
Floyd has been taking this year.

My other feeling is that Testosterone isn't something you take the night before or the day of so you can ride better. It helps you build muscles over a long period of time. We're talking weeks here, long enough for it to have shown up during the doping controls he had earlier in the Tour. Being that taking it's not a drug that cycling generally takes to cheat w/ immediate results, it brings a lot into a question. So here's hoping that he's one of those that truly has a weird physiology producing all this naturally.

Like I said, not too invested.


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