Now He Tells Us

Landis, Admitting Doping, Accuses Top U.S. Cyclists

VISALIA, Calif. — After maintaining his innocence for four years amid doping charges that ruined his reputation and caused him to be stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title, the American cyclist Floyd Landis has admitted using performance-enhancing drugs for most of his career, according to emails sent to several cycling officials.

In those emails from Landis, which were described Wednesday by two of the officials who received them, Landis wrote that he had used performance-enhancing drugs or methods since 2002, his first year racing with the now-defunct United States Postal Service team, once led by Lance Armstrong. The officials did not want his name published, citing ongoing investigations, including by federal authorities, into the content of the emails.

In those messages, which were first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Landis also detailed the performance-enhancing drug use of other top American cyclists on the U.S. Postal Service team, including Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France champion. Other cyclists named in the emails were current U.S. road racing national champion George Hincapie, three-time Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer and five-time U.S. time trial champion David Zabriskie. 

...Landis, who served a two-year ban for doping and did not return phone calls for this story, told ESPN.com that he has no documentation to prove most of his claims.

...Federal authorities have spoken with Landis in recent weeks about the information in the e-mails, according to two people briefed on the matter.

Doping in professional cycling?  Hold the front page.  Of course, he can't prove its true and the people he is accusing probably can't prove him false.

Comments

[Captain Hate]

Bike racing is one of the sports that I could care less about, but I've been amused at the rabid nature of the doping attacks on Lance Armstrong to the point where I've been on his side. The only blemish to me is that he's signed with the Nike whores.

[hit and run]

Landis wrote that he had used performance-enhancing drugs or methods since 2002

OK,I get it,he was doping.

But what does "performance enhancing methods" mean?

Did he practice yoga or something? Studied ballet? Learned to play the harpsichord? Memorized The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

I'd like to know what a performance enhancing method is that it would be something that needed to be admitted because it would be punishable.

I'm sure it's something rather obvious that I'm not thinking of -- something someone who follows cycling even minimally is probably rather surprised that I don't readily see it.

But I don't. It must be the decaf. Or the ambivalence. Probably mostly the ambivalence.

That reminds me. princess hit and run's birthday is next month,and she needs a new bike. She better start working harder on her harpsichord lessons,though.

[Bill Clinton says feeding algae CO2 is like giving them steroids.]

Think of all the plant food they exhaled.
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[Link Under Name, scroll to the McIntyre thread, comment #73.]

Omigod, I'm jealous. A 'Roger Carr' has invented 'Meltdown Mann' at Bishop Hill's.
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[Never, never, never gonna speed again.]

Slip the juice to me, Bruce.
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[BumperStickerist]

Say what you will about cycling,

but bike racing commentators Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen are treasures.

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[peter]

hit, the performance enhancing they use is blood doping, removing your own blood, storing it, and then reinjecting it. Gives your body more capacity to carry oxygen to muscle cells. And then they use certain drugs to hide the fact that they did this.

[Clarice]

Big Journalism --The Chicago FBI had a mole covering Rezko and Blago but Fitz hasn't let him testify to protect Obama who's in this corruption it would seem up to his eyeballs.
http://bigjournalism.com/acary/2010/05/19/tony-rezko-barack-obama-the-fbi-mole-and-the-chicago-msm/>Free the Mole

[hit and run]

Ahhh, thanks peter!

I wonder if anyone has ever thought of injecting other people's blood instead of their own.

Cycling vampires!

But would daytime races then be a problem?

[Roger B.]

So Landis implicates Armstrong, Hincapie, Leipheimer & Zabriskie, but not Andreu. I'm shocked!

[caro]

Don't miss the bgates post on the "I can literally..." thread.

Clarice, can a former president be indicted?

[Danube of Thought]

Minus 16 at Raz; 45/53 overall (lowest since Obamacare passed).

[Danube of Thought]

Jay Nordlinger's notes on Jane and Caro's Portuguese cruise.

[Clarice]

Yes, Caro, I don't see why not. While in office, impeachment seems the only recourse for criminal activity, afterwards he's a mere mortal.

[anduril]

Warning. Warning. Danger Will Robinson.

Why 1-In-10 Current Borrowers Will Lose Their Home To The Bank.

So go read the blog and gawk at the awful charts.

[Clarice]

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/05/the_case_of_the_muzzled_mole_1.html>The case of the muzzled mole

[Jane]

That seems like typical Fitz Clarice. I wish Andy McCarthy would explain to us again why he thinks the man has integrity.

[Clarice]

Yeah. The SDNY US Attys Fraternity.

[Danube of Thought]

You can't make this stuff up. Here's the AP, right on cue:

The number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week by the largest amount in three months. The big surge was a setback to hopes that layoffs were declining.

[Danube of Thought]

Check it out at Drudge: the London Olympic mascots' faces look strangely like toilet seats. And the one in blue appears to have wet his pants. WTF?

[anduril]

Excellent blog from Steve Sailer:

Harvard has Undocumented Studier arrested

In the latest from the Annals of Not Getting the Joke, the New York Times reports:

A Delaware man has been charged with faking his way into Harvard and duping the university out of $45,000 in financial aid, grants and scholarships. Adam Wheeler, 23, of Milton, Del., was admitted to Harvard and became a student in 2007 after he falsely claimed he had earned a perfect academic record at Phillips Academy in Andover and had studied for a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, prosecutors said Monday. Harvard started to look into Mr. Wheeler’s background after he sought the university’s endorsement for Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships. He was indicted on 20 offenses, including larceny, identity fraud and pretending to hold a degree. He was arrested Monday by Massachusetts authorities and scheduled for arraignment Tuesday in Middlesex Superior Court. He was trying to transfer to Yale and Brown when he got caught, District Attorney Gerry Leone of Middlesex County said. Before attending Harvard, Mr. Wheeler was a student at Bowdoin College in Maine from 2005-7, but was suspended for academic dishonesty, the authorities said.

This case is just more evidence that Congress must pass Comprehensive Admissions Reform granting a Pathway to Scholarship for the likes of poor Mr. Wheeler.

[Janet]

LUN daddy linked this article on the "I Infer..." thread.
"Scientist Booted Off Oil Panel Over Writing"

Those tolerant liberals are at it again...

[bunkerbuster]

Unexpectedly as in "not consistent with economists forecasts." But I guess we shouldn't expect DoT to understand that...or at least we shouldn't expect him to let it interfere with his morning paranoia dose...

[Captain Hate]

Didn't the jugeared dunce campaign against putting politics over science that Boooosh was always doing? What, he didn't really mean it? The deuce you say....

[bunkerbuster]

and if there's any spin in the AP bit, it's negative. They could have framed the number as continuing the trend, but they decided the more relevant context was "dashed hopes." I'm sure DoT's pleased that more people are out of work, anyway...

[Danube of Thought]

Why does Floyd Landis remind me of Arlen Specter? Perhaps simply because thinking of either of them makes me smile contentedly...

[Rick Ballard]

Leading Index in U.S. Unexpectedly Dropped in April

The economists that Bloomberg surveys need to get their algos into the shop. That or go sit in the dunce corner next to last month's political prognosticators who were prepping us for that V shaped recovery that was surely just over the horizon.

BTW - this is the week used by the BLS in its determination of May employment. You can expect to see "unexpectedly" show up in the headlines on June 4th.

Again.

[narciso]

They give all the reason why the numbers were so low, so why did they think the trend was going to be any different

[Thomas Collins]

Bunkerbuster, what is your reasoning on how DOT's 10:36 AM post in any way demonstrates that DOT doesn't understand that "unexpectedly" is used in relation to economic forecasts? I think it's pretty obvious that MSM is reflexively accepting rosy economic forecasts and thus uses "unexpectedly" in these contexts. If MSM had been doing its job over time, it would have been scrutinizing more closely these forecasts. And what evidence is there in DOT's post that DOT is pleased that more people are out of work?

DOT, I realize you certainly don't need any defense from me against bunkerbuster or anyone else. For some reason I am intrigued by the reasoning of bunkerbuster.

In any event, lest DOT walk away with bunkerbuster's JOM Paranoia Award today, I hereby submit my own entry at the LUN, which entry I claim is another example of the demented nature of the Nanny Bureaucratic State. That should put me in the running for "JOM Paranoid" of the day!

[Captain Hate]

For some reason I am intrigued by the reasoning of bunkerbuster.

Watch DVDs of the X-Files where Scully and Mulder scrutinize the paranormal.

[Rob Crawford]

For some reason I am intrigued by the reasoning of bunkerbuster.

The problem is, there is no reasoning involved. Bunkerbuster is a reflexive leftist partisan; it is more likely his comments are cut-and-paste from a script than it is he puts thought into them.

[Danube of Thought]

Zev Chafetz has an op-ed piece in the NY Times assessing "The Limbaugh Victory."

[Danube of Thought]

Thanks TC, but I'll have no further truck with that fool.

[Captain Hate]

And TC, the lunatic at LUN has you beat for paranoia any day of the week.

[Thomas Collins]

Captain Hate, I admit that I can't top Howard Dean accusing the NY Times of doing a hatchet job on a Dem by running a negative article on Blumenthal taken from opposition research. I hereby cede any claim I have to a "Paranoia Oscar" to Howard Dean!

[Rick Ballard]

TC,

Perhaps "unexpectedly" should be used as a marker for a pseudo-Keynesian? No on from the Austrian school can be surprised by the continuing failure of the policies instituted by Bozo and the Democrat Clown Posse.

Economies run on trust. Nobody in anywhere near their right mind would trust the Kendonesian commie and his cronies to do anything other than steal.

[Walter]

Janet,

Thanks for the link to the Wash U scientist's controversial analysis. It strikes me that you can disagree with the implications of his assertions, but they hardly affect his ability to analyze physical science.

I suppose that Obama would like to dismiss for cause the Supreme Court justice who said that the way to stop discrimating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. After all, anybody capable of that type of reasoning is simply incapable of rational thought on any subject.

My youngest brother received his PhD in physics from Wash U. a few years ago. He is very conservative--for example, his family refuses to use items manufactured in China*. You can't imagine how difficult it is to shop for 5 kids' birthdays with that condition. OTOH, he was not caught out by that toxic drywall scam when remodeling his house... As not-so-recent alum, I'm pleased to see that the professor hasn't been driven out.

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*Abortion policy, not politics or economics.

[Thomas Collins]

Rick, it would be interesting to compare the predictions of modern Austrian schoolers with mainstream economic forecasters with respect to how the economy would react to ObamaEconomicViagra. Noone who has read Hayek would be surprised at the flaccidity of the economy's reponse.

[Rob Crawford]

I admit that I can't top Howard Dean accusing the NY Times of doing a hatchet job on a Dem by running a negative article on Blumenthal taken from opposition research.

Keep in mind that what pissed Dean off is that the story was about a Dem, not that the NYT ran a story based on opposition research done by a campaign.

[narciso]

Then again, Hayek's and Von Mises before them,
main critique was against the interventionist
of the historical school, namely Schmoller and Wagner, who shaped prewar Austrian and even German economic policy, in contradiction
of Smith and other laissez affaire proponent, I found that from Caldwell's bio on Hayek

[Captain Hate]

I hereby cede any claim I have to a "Paranoia Oscar" to Howard Dean!

In fairness, and in keeping with the thread topic, he has a prescription pad.

[Pagar]

"Keep in mind that what pissed Dean off"

I would think that the Democrats think the NYTs belonged to them and would only publish stories that make Republicans look bad. The story must have made them feel betrayed. Anyone know the last time the NYTs published a story that made a Democrat look bad?

[Rick Ballard]

Narciso,

The main body of Hayek's work (and certainly Mise's Socialism) consisted of a dissection of the 'Tinkerbelle theory of economics' generated by Endarkenment lackwits who very consistently misapplied 'scientistic' (Hayek's description) principles derived from a misunderstanding of the limited scope of the actual scientific method.

Socialism was printed in 1926, never rebutted (it was studiously ignored by the progressive simpletons of its time), and proven prophetic some 65 years after publication with the collapse of the USSR. In one sense we are continuing to experience the 'proving' of the Austrian's prophecies today.

None of what is happening is "unexpected" in the slightest.

Except to prog geese who are startled by sunrise every morning, of course.

[Rick Ballard]

Narciso,

The main body of Hayek's work (and certainly Mise's Socialism) consisted of a dissection of the 'Tinkerbelle theory of economics' generated by Endarkenment lackwits who very consistently misapplied 'scientistic' (Hayek's description) principles derived from a misunderstanding of the limited scope of the actual scientific method.

Socialism was printed in 1926, never rebutted (it was studiously ignored by the progressive simpletons of its time), and proven prophetic some 65 years after publication with the collapse of the USSR. In one sense we are continuing to experience the 'proving' of the Austrian's prophecies today.

None of what is happening is "unexpected" in the slightest.

Except to prog geese who are startled by sunrise every morning, of course.

[narciso]

You can say that again, Rick, but don't. Caldwell's bio was pointing out something which is rarely discussed, the particulars of
the scientistic philosophy, notably Schmoller
and Wagner (I had read Fallows' discuss List
as the basis for the Japanese industrial miracle, not so much anymore though)

[He's gotta believe someone's out to get him.]

Fitz, Fitz, Fitz. What kind of Hell must he live in?
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[daddy]

"I'm pleased to see that the professor hasn't been driven out."

I'm pleased to see that the professor hasn't been driven out yet.

[Mustang0302]

It's true. Armstrong was arrested and detained in France on arrival at CDG in '98 for smuggling controlled substances...
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...soap, toothpaste, mouthwash, deodorant, etc.

Old joke. I never tire of it.

[daddy]

Nice one mustang. Hadn't heard it, but oh so true:)

[AL]

Cut the crap, boys. It is pretty usual occurrence to unemployment numbers to go up when economy (or at least GDP) began to improve. People who lost hope for employment just began job search again at first indications of improving economy. Nothing unpredictable about that.

[Mustang0302]

Care for a breath mint, AL?

They're legal here you know.

Please, I insist.

[bunkerbuster]

``we are continuing to experience the 'proving' of the Austrian's prophecies today.''

Wow. Still unproven after all these years. What would it take?
You have to be pretty down on the entire human race to believe that at no point has any society been smart enough to avail itself of the Austrian miracle method for economic organization.
Maybe reality's a bit more complicated. Maybe the Austrian's insights are but a single window on the great big world, where things tend not to go as planned or expected....

[Mustang0302]

None of what is happening is "unexpected" in the slightest.

Except to prog geese who are startled by sunrise every morning, of course.

Why, good morning, bb! Sleep well?

[That petrified honk is projection.]

Right, bb. Cambodia didn't go as expected, either.
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[narciso]

The problem we were discussing earlier, Rick, is in thie excerpt from Caldwell, in the LUN