Re: Moto-fraud: first rider caught
Just ask yourself why Floyd gave it full gas for the "Floyd Fairness fund". Did he know 35%, 50% 66% or 100% that he was not guilty of what he was charged with ? It took real b*lls to do those videos and ask for the money. Did he go full gas in so public a way because he thought he had a 50:50 chance of him not having triggered the trip wire ?
Then move on, later, one of his best friends commits suicide, with Floyd's situation a serious contributing factor. That memory is never going away. I would imagine even now he thinks about it most days.
Anyone contemplating blowing the wh istle on motors knows that it will not be a clean strike. Collateral damage to the entirely innocent will probably exceed damage to those engaged in the scam. Floyd would have far more first hand knowledge of that than any of us. Imagine what his family have had to put up with as a consequence of his actions.
AFAIK I am not aware that we have had anything from the Floyd side other than he believes his positive was a stitch up. So who the heck was motivated to stitch him up in such a gross way? I thought at the time of his win he was more popular than Lance had been in 2004 or 2005.
Floyd appears to have clear motives for his later actions - to damage the standing of Lance, US Cycling, the UCI/Hein, increase his own standing, decrease Lance's bank account and put money in his own. I am not aware of any evidence that he wanted to burn the whole show to the ground.
If the USPostal case had been concluded or even found in favour of Lance, with nothing for Floyd, then Floyd maybe motivated to share his thoughts on who stitched him up and the full motive base behind it. Right now Floyd's rehabilitation is in the balance; very finely in the balance. Therefore, as Sniper says up thread, no sane person would expect anything more from him right now.
Are motors being used in the peloton ? The best evidence is in front of us. Are PEDs being used in pro cycling ? A shed load of money is spent on testing. Just who has been caught during Cookson's watch ? A shed load of money is spent on motor testing. Just who has been caught on Cookson's watch ? Take away the Sepanov's walking through the door to WADA and, worldwide, what would be the sum total of the anti-PED action be in the last 5 years - across all sports. There would be no Russian scam, no counter Fancy Bears. Pull all that out and what are you left with? Taking all those PEDs off the banned list for OOC testing and the gate has been left wide open. No one has asked Freeman just how many of shots of Tramadol he injected into Sir Brad OOC when it was "legal" ? Freeman and Brad were just being greedy getting three TUEs so they could continue to shoot up through those tours and Brad had a "get out of jail free" card for all the positives that would result.
Beyond this, the execution of testing for PEDs is so ineffective in cycling because of the structure of the sport with all its informant paths/corruption, the easy passage of shared defeat intelligence and dodgy staff moving from team to team with a bounty for what they know. What sane person would somehow think that testing for motors would not be similarly ineffective for the same reasons.
That "good egg" Michael Barry gave us "Inside the Postal Bus" (a real page turner - I just could not put it down) . Who wasn't shocked when Tyler told us what really happened on the US Postal bus; that they were so blatant; that so many were involved in taking the p out of us all ? The USPostal bus is broken down after the Tour stage on route to the hotel. Oh Dear - look the driver is out trying to fix the engine on the dodgy bus(how could they - why don't they have a brand new bus for hero Lance each year ?)! Look he has pulled off that black round thing with pipes sticking out of it and oil dripping from it. The breakdown people are not here yet. How can Lance be expected to win if he can't get to the hotel and get his rub down and food on time ? We have been here half an hour and they are still waiting for the breakdown truck. Phew, the driver cleaned up that black thing and now the engine has started. Lance and co are on their way, 40 minutes late to the hotel but at least they made it. By rights the driver in on the scam, driving to the RV with motor man; knowing Lance Tyler Floyd and the rest were all on the floor of the coach with blood bags hooked up, should have been a leak path, give me 1/2 $mill or I talk, but history has shown us time and again, even though these people do not become rich, they keep quiet.
Don't even think about what you have seen. The confirmation that motors are being used in the peloton is that the UCI are spending so much money and making a public show of testing for them.
Teinus' superb post up thread where he describes Tour radio announcing motor testing and then Contador and others stopping pedalling and swapping bikes is the corroboration. We can sleep secure that motor use is as likely in the peloton as PED use.
The only unknown right now is , who, how and where and when ?
A timely reminder of how the system works is neatly summarised with that picture of Sky DS Sean Yates with his Sky team car, (yes him from Linda McCartney (any news on that UKAD investigation coming to an end) and Lance's buddy), with motorman outside motorman's shop. Sir Dave Brailsford told us Sean had to leave Team Sky due to a sad and tragic twist in Sean's health (I know, I had to wipe the tear away as well) his heart condition had seriously worsened. Lazarus - picking up your bed and walking is just no match for these guys. Perhaps someone can post it up for us here to remind us, 5 years later, of the lies Sky, Sir David and Fran spun us. And who is it that thinks motors are unbelievable ?
nice.
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