Pound took something like a schoolboy’s delight in talking about Landis’s lab result, which supposedly showed his testosterone level to be grotesquely above what is typical for most men. Landis has denied taking a prohibited substance and is fighting what could be a two-year ban from cycling. “I mean, it was 11 to 1!” Pound said, referring to Landis’s reported testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio, a measure used to identify doping. “You’d think he’d be violating every virgin within 100 miles. How does he even get on his bicycle?”
[This from a guy named Dick Pound.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/ma...idoping.t.html
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And in different news:
The controversy between the International Cycling Union and some of the European federations has continued over the week-end. On Friday, UCI president Pat McQuaid said the following at a New Year's reception, which was broadcast by Dutch TV program NOS: "There is a clash going on at the moment between two cultures. The Anglo-Saxon culture and what I might call the 'Mafia' Western European culture [meaning Belgium, France, Italy and Spain - ed.]. The Western European culture has to some extent, I won't say condoned doping, but because of their culture in life, the way they deal with everything else in life, they accept certain practices.
"The Anglo-Saxon cultures, which would be the Netherlands, Germany, England, Denmark, are the complete opposite. They have a completely different approach to the doping problem. I feel that it's very important that at the end of the day, the Anglo-Saxon approach wins out. If it doesn't, then the sport is doomed."
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...an07/jan08news
Must all of Western Europe suffer for the sins of the Italians? Hank, what say you?
