The cycling magazines are handling this really well...
Published by Halverde on 8/01/2006 at 10:29.
...Advertising their Tour de France specials during the coverage of the Vattenfall Classic. Presumably the fact that they didn't sell any copies of their unfortunately redundant magazines prior to or during the Tour means that the logical step is to advertise them after the Tour has finished. In their defence, the "Who will win the Tour?" question is still to be answered, and at least this way you won't have to read an outdated editorial about how Floyd Landis's ride inspired thousands or an updated editorial on how Floyd Landis's doping shocked everyone.
The Armstrong Mafia groups are already constructing water-tight defences of Landis ("He drank beer! Other people have high testosterone! He quite often drops a peleton and holds them off for 150Km in training!"), while the European papers are rumouring that he had someone else's testosterone in his body. Juding by the pathetic way Phonak were riding, it appears as though he probably syphoned them dry in the first week of the Tour.
Idea: why not just a safety "roof" for testosterone levels, like they used to for haemocrit levels? Anyone above a certain figure has to take an enforced break. It's not as though positive tests happen every week, so the "some people have naturally high levels" defence shouldn't even apply in this instance. It's at least 10% more logical than "I was so excited with the win that I accidentally squirted the wrong bodily fluid into the cup", or whatever it is Floyd is using to defend himself at the moment.
Tomorrow:
Nothing about Floyd fucking Landis.
The Armstrong Mafia groups are already constructing water-tight defences of Landis ("He drank beer! Other people have high testosterone! He quite often drops a peleton and holds them off for 150Km in training!"), while the European papers are rumouring that he had someone else's testosterone in his body. Juding by the pathetic way Phonak were riding, it appears as though he probably syphoned them dry in the first week of the Tour.
Idea: why not just a safety "roof" for testosterone levels, like they used to for haemocrit levels? Anyone above a certain figure has to take an enforced break. It's not as though positive tests happen every week, so the "some people have naturally high levels" defence shouldn't even apply in this instance. It's at least 10% more logical than "I was so excited with the win that I accidentally squirted the wrong bodily fluid into the cup", or whatever it is Floyd is using to defend himself at the moment.
Tomorrow:
Nothing about Floyd fucking Landis.
