B sample proved the A sample to be correct.

Tsk.

Word is according to sky that hes also been given the sack from his team.

lol @ eru

I guess some of the fan boys can now take thier heads out of the sand....

Come on, everyone occasionally takes at least some small delight in the ironic fall of someone who has been placed on a pedastal.

At least, pretty much every Brit I know has some element of that in their sense of humour.

I presume you would find it mildly entertaining if Dubya fell under a Bus (hey, its not that unlikely!), but lots of American voters felt strongly enough to get him in power - unless this sense of humour is completely lost in translation.

The way I see it anyone with even an ounce of cynicism in their blood had to think his day 17 performance after day 16 was at least slightly dubious. Same way as I still wonder about Jonathon Edwards triple jump records.

The thing that annoys me, is the media rolling over themselves to say, this is terminal for cycling, its credibility is in the bin, very bad for the TourdF etc.

Cycling is not mainstream, the general public outside continental Europe couldnt give a hoot. People whore not cycling fans wont care, people who are wont be that bothered by this. X number of Italian football clubs proved to have fixed matches - the end of Italian football? hardly, just another scandal.

Cycling has proved its hard on drugs- if youre tested and found wanting, youre out. Armstrong was tested and tested again for a decade, nothing found. Millar was tested and banned for two years. The system works!

What they need to do now is get on with this proving of a naturally high testo level in Landis - I reckon theyve got about three or four weeks to come up with the goods or itll be too late, hell be written off in the minds of anybody interested. Im prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt for that long, after that Ill join the cynics.

For the time being, it looks very much as if FL has taken the "Im not a Frenchman" pill...

Work on your analogies.

The point is some people will want for Bush the same success you want for Landis because they appreciate whatever qualities it is they appreciate in him and you appreciate in Landis.

When that success doesnt happen, youll be quite happy to say "Blimey, glad that crazy trigger-happy pretzel muncher is out of the White House", much as Im glad to see that cycling is making an effort to maintain its integrity by catching drug cheats.

As far as explaining the performance boost potentially provided the extra teste-juice, I cant do that, surprisingly Im a sports fan not a doctor. I will say that it must be a banned substance for a reason though.

I want some of these in me, (when i can be sure they are 99% safe, long-term - at the mo they are a bit pipe-dreamy )

That acts as an artificial red blood cell. It is made out of pure diamond. It works far more efficiently than a red blood cell, mostly thanks to the massive pressure that can be sustained within its rigid diamondoid shell. So efficiently, in fact, that 5 cubic millimeters of such respirocytes would be enough to replace all of the blood in your body, and perform the same functions at equivalent or better performance. If your blood were saturated with respirocytes, it would become possible for you to hold your breath underwater for many hours, or sprint at top speed for somewhere near 15 minutes.

Imagine scuba-diving without any gear, or on your bike doing your local loop flat-out or something.

itd be proper awsome :mrgreen: