Verbruggen weighs in on Landisgate

Junior

There are some really off the wall things coming from the UCI of late. However it looks like Hein Verbruggen has weighed in with his considerable frame to the argument. It's easy to see where McQuack gets his lead from ..

"Floyd Landis sent a message to the UCI that he was going to publish the things that he published," Verbruggen said in a telephone interview. "He said that we, the UCI, had put a test from Armstrong under the table.
"The lawyer of the UCI sent a letter back, not from me personally, but on behalf of the UCI, saying, 'We have to warn you: When you tell lies, you are liable, and we might sue you if you tell lies.' That was sent already two or three weeks before he published the whole thing."

So they threatened Landis with liable but didn't bother to attempt to see if the allegations could be substantiated. There's an organization that's got a proper moral compass at it's centre.

Verbruggen goes onto say about the 'positive test'

In the meantime, Verbruggen said, the UCI had checked all EPO cases from 2001 through 2003 and found there were no positives from Armstrong.
"We have never had a positive case of Lance Armstrong," he said. "We've checked and checked and checked again, but we are absolutely positive about that.

Aye, that would be right, Landis's claim is that a positive test was covered up, so I'd bet that all results are negative, I'm also going to assume they checked the results and didn't actually bother to go do a retest. It's something I've wondered since I've read this, could the UCI and Armstrong be forced into retesting his samples from the 01 Tour of Suisse ?

He also comes out with this wee gem about Lance's donation

Verbruggen said he checked with the UCI in 2005 or 2006 to see if they had received the money.
"They had forgotten about it," he said. "Then they went after the money and they got it. That's the whole story."

Oh aye so they'd forgotten and you just happened to remember .. you'd wonder how much power he still has ?

More from Hein http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h7Jk4YzjY3Q_DpRRWcoWvoA76_cgD9G76REG0

IM0

we sooo need a doping forum so we can put all this rubbish? in till anything comes of it, and then dig it up to see who was right

thebouldwhacker

I just wish there were some independent agency testing across all sports so they would be free of pressure from any one agency or team. I can't say someone is guilty until proven so but there's so much crap hanging over cycling's elite that it dirties the sport for all.

Come on champ.... tell us the twruth

Junior

thebouldwhacker wrote: »

I just wish there were some independent agency testing across all sports so they would be free of pressure from any one agency or team. I can't say someone is guilty until proven so but there's so much crap hanging over cycling's elite that it dirties the sport for all.

Come on champ.... tell us the twruth

There was, in AFLD and WADA but both were as bad as UCI for the ability to be seen to be doing the right thing and the court of justice seemed to be in print not actually a court.