Tricycle Rider said:
absolutely_not said:
The bits that have been leaked from the depositions tend to suggest the contrary : Tylor Hamilton backpedalling on some of his statements and blaming Daniel Coyle for them.
So anything is possible but I wouldn't hold my breath for Hamilton having some secret card if I were you.
For all we know, Hamilton made some sweet arangments with the truth in his book as Aragon and fmk_rol previously said. It doesn't fit with what you expect.
Point conceded.
However, is it possible that Hamilton and Landis might still have something on Armstrong that they haven't disclosed yet?
That was actually the whole point of my initial post. (And if it was wrong of me to ask this I will just go and hang my head in shame in the nearest corner.)
I'm not sure one of the party involved in a trial is allowed to keep an evidence to themselve. If so, then yes it is impossible.
Even if not impossible per se it is still very very very unlikely
Hamilton doesn't stand anything to win or to loose in this trial. His big shot was the book The secret race 5 years ago. As it has already been said, he bent the truth in his book so it suits him better. I don't see any reason for him to do that while not using some other major info he could have on Armstrong.
Landis is a different story.
He doesn't want the trial to happen.
1-
The ods are he is going to loose (or at least win much less he could have had Armstrong and the government settle the case)
2- It will remind the rest of the world who doesn't follow the story closely who he is :
someone who sell his former teamates for money and one of the biggest hypocrite out there. It might not be true, but when people are reminded he denied for years, then finally admit only to set motion to the Qui Tam a few days after people won't try to look any further.
Especially since he failed to demonstrate what harm had really cause to him Armstrong and Bruyneel.
It will also remind people all the other things he was involved : asking the average guy to donate money for his Floyd Fairness Fund, and not respecting his obligations to pay back in the years that follow 2012. Repete the very personal thing Greg Lemond had told him which lead to Lemond being harassed and blackmailed by Landis friend. That story of him being involved in the hacking of a french lab, what was it again?
Anyway,
Landis would be better without a trial (so does Armstrong obviously but that's another story).
Had he had some more info he could have use to win the trial before it happens - by being granted victory by the juge or by forcing Armstrong to settle - you can be damn sure he would have used it already