OK, I don’t usually wade into sports, but cannot resist with the news that the feel-good story of the summer is suddenly stinking. Floyd Landis, this year’s Lance Armstrong, is being accused of using performance-enhancing drugs… he had high levels of testosterone after his amazing comeback after Stage 17.
He wondered yesterday if it might have had anything to do with a shot of Jack Daniels… his physician said he had read a scientific paper that alcohol can raise T levels…
Wondering how the marketing department at Brown-Forman might spin this revelation…
Floyd asked that we adhere to the innocent until proven guilty law of the land… OK, but what does your gut say? Innocent or guilty?
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Responses to “Jack Daniels at the Tour de France”
July 28th, 2006 at 11:25 am
He has thought through this issue enough to deliberately give his doctor the attribute. If he’d said, “I googled up natural testosterone increase and found out that a shot of JD might legally bump me up a little” - I’d believe it. The clumsy window dressing around the statement adds a shade of falseness to it. Obviously it is impossible from this distance for us to know, but you are what you speak.
July 31st, 2006 at 12:32 pm
My vote depends on what I’ve read. The latest info I’ve put my hands on makes me think innocent. It’s apparently a new test that’s not been proven out very well. It’s actually a testosterone ratio to another bio-chemical. His testosterone was actually normal but the other was abnormally low. There have been a few A tests (initial tests) that have come back positive but the retests have come back negative. This was a little higher profile with Landis.
That said, I pretty much don’t trust the cyclists or the testing agencies. Just like I don’t trust baseball players, the players association or the League offices on pretty much anything either. I still love both sports.
August 4th, 2006 at 11:22 am
Nobody ever accused me of being a sports fan, except when Tiger is on the greens. But I had to sympathize with Floyd when I read about his hip ailment. The man was doing well to get on the bike, much less win the thing, for crying out loud! I certainly hope he is completely exonerated. And if Jack Daniels was the cause, at least maybe it helped him get thru the whole ordeal.
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