How to build a successful Floyd Landis style defence:

- Decide not to turn up to the B Sample test, despite the fact that the laboratory and UCI allow the rider to be present to ensure the test is completed according to protocol.
- State that you've never received the results and that everything the media has heard is a lie (before using the test results and favourable media reports as evidence that you're innocent).
- Claim that test protocol wasn't followed.

Floyd's also suing the last company he went for an interview with, on the grounds that he missed his bus because he didn't go and get his bus. Or is that analogy a bit weak? Either way, it's hard to think that missing the B Sample was part of the plan from the beginning -- he had an opportunity to kick up a fuss BEFORE the test took place and make sure everything was done to WADA standard.

Obviously not being there when the test was conducted puts him in a much better position to judge how the laboratory tested his sample than it would if he HAD been there. Doesn't make a lick of sense does it? And that's the entire basis for his defence. SIGH.

Tomorrow
We'll stop with all this unpopular rubbish. We're probably going to get an e-mail from Floyd's lawyers anyway.