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Lance Armstrong’s Second Comeback: stuff of legends or death of one?

Well, it appears it is official, Lance Armstrong, the uncontested best Tour de France rider ever with 7 tour victories has announced his intention to return to the sport with the goal of competing in the 2009 Tour de France. … Continue reading

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Floyd Landis and the Magic Water Bottle: Part III

Editor’s Note: Here’s the long-awaited third installment to my series on Floyd Landis and his epic Tour de France and subsequent doping controversy. While I don’t claim to have all the answers, I do have a unique perspective that is … Continue reading

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CAS Refuses to Hear Landis Appeal. Positive Doping Verdict Upheld.

So ends one of the most ludicrous, unfair, illegitimate and biased trials in the history of professional sport. According to CNN, a three person committee meeting in Lausanne Switzerland has issued a 58 page ruling denying Floyd’s request to be … Continue reading

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Floyd Landis and the Magic Water Bottle: Part II

In part one of this post I talked about my prior relationship with Floyd and also named a few of the folks that might have had a vested interest in seeing Floyd come up positive for synthetic testosterone in the … Continue reading

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Floyd Landis and the Magic Water Bottle: Part I

I’m no friend of Floyd Landis. I wanted to get that statement up front so that no one thinks that this post is motivated by friendship – or conversely, by any lack thereof. I’m not Floyd’s enemy, either. We were … Continue reading

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A Question of Chemistry: a selection from my writings on pharmaco-technology

Way back, once upon a time after I was an athlete for pay but before I was a card carrying geek, most of my intellectual energy was invested in biochemistry, pharmacology, biology and the science of better athletes through chemistry. … Continue reading

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