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[Race Radio]

That quote's not in the interview.

If it's a different interview, do you have a link, I'd like to read it.

Benson tweeted it yesterday, same interview.

 

[Mambo95]

Benson tweeted it yesterday, same interview.

But, I was looking for the interview with the quote you mentioned in it. That one doesn't have it. I want the actual quote with 'ducks' and 'triggers'. I was interested in what he was referring to. Context is everything, after all.

(I've tried the search facilities and google, but they're not finding this quote)

 

[Polish]

"Dopey" dopers and "Cleverer" ones. What?

Since Armstrong is mentioned 0 times, I repeat, zero times
and Alberto is mentioned 4, I repeat, four times
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Good point Cobbles.
You know, ever since Lance filed "The Motion", leaks have dried up.
Having a world class team of lawyers pays off handsomely.
Alberto's lawyers have a lot to learn lol.

Compare the current comments to last year when Howman was smearing:

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/how...ion-could-be-as-significant-as-the-balco-case

http://forum.cyclingnews.com/showthread.php?t=10631
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[Benotti69]

But, I was looking for the interview with the quote you mentioned in it. That one doesn't have it. I want the actual quote with 'ducks' and 'triggers'. I was interested in what he was referring to. Context is everything, after all.

(I've tried the search facilities and google, but they're not finding this quote)

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/columns/story?columnist=ford_bonnie_d&id=5705203

"That's not unusual," Howman said, adding that since an athlete of Contador's prominence would be expected to expend a lot of money and resources in fighting sanctions, the UCI wants to have its evidentiary ducks in line. But he insisted Contador is not getting preferential treatment and repeated his previous stance that WADA would intervene if the UCI were to take an undue amount of time.

i dont use google when searching Lance/Novitsky related doping.

 

[Mambo95]

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/cycling/columns/story?columnist=ford_bonnie_d&id=5705203



i dont use google when searching Lance/Novitsky related doping.

Thanks. So it he was referring to Contador's, not Armstrong's case, as Radio Radio was suggesting.

 

[LarryBudMelman]

Is 'retart' slanderous.......

Negative. Medical diagnosis.

Anybody have any video of Fabricator? Does he giggle when he comes out with this $hit and would they put the giggles in a transcript?

 

[Race Radio]

Thanks. So it he was referring to Contador's, not Armstrong's case, as Radio Radio was suggesting.

It is often the case that when CN does an interview they produce 2-3 articles based on it. Good way to drive page views.

I expect the interview with Howman was wide ranging and there will be additional articles on it.....that will confirm he was referring to Armstrong. It would be a stretch to think the investigators he was referring to were anything else

 

[Dr. Maserati]

Thanks. So it he was referring to Contador's, not Armstrong's case, as Radio Radio was suggesting.

It was a tweet from Daniel Benson yesterday - not an article from last year and nothing to do with Contador.

 

[Mambo95]

It was a tweet from Daniel Benson yesterday - not an article from last year and nothing to do with Contador.

So where is this article?

I'm interested because it would be the first time anyone in authority has mentioned the Armstrong case for months and months. It would confirm that the case hasn't been quietly dropped (which is my suspicion).

 

[Velodude]

So where is this article?

I'm interested because it would be the first time anyone in authority has mentioned the Armstrong case for months and months. It would confirm that the case hasn't been quietly dropped (which is my suspicion).

Quietly dropped? Without ne'er a mention to the media by a would be gloating Fabiani & Armstrong?

That is fantasyland.

 

[Dr. Maserati]

So where is this article?

I'm interested because it would be the first time anyone in authority has mentioned the Armstrong case for months and months. It would confirm that the case hasn't been quietly dropped (which is my suspicion).

What article? It was a quote put up on twitter.

You think the case has been dropped??

 

[Race Radio]

So where is this article?

I'm interested because it would be the first time anyone in authority has mentioned the Armstrong case for months and months. It would confirm that the case hasn't been quietly dropped (which is my suspicion).

Did you actually read what I wrote?

 

[Mambo95]

What article? It was a quote put up on twitter.

You think the case has been dropped??

Well things have gone quiet for a long time and governments all over the world are cutting costs across the board, so it's a reasonable suspicion.

(I've seen the quote on twitter, but wanted to know what, specifically, it was referring to. No-one has provided an answer).

 

[Mambo95]

Did you actually read what I wrote?

Yes and I wasn't sure what it was referring to, so asked for a link to the context. Without context, the quote is meaningless.

 

[Race Radio]

Well things have gone quiet for a long time and governments all over the world are cutting costs across the board, so it's a reasonable suspicion.

(I've seen the quote on twitter, but wanted to know what, specifically, it was referring to. No-one has provided an answer).

Surely we can all agree he must have been talking about the investigation into alien life forms

A lot of media at the conference. ESPN says

At partnership for clean comp confab in NFL headquarters. Top phd's in the world, but the rock star is Jeff Novitzky.

 

[Mambo95]

Quietly dropped? Without ne'er a mention to the media by a would be gloating Fabiani & Armstrong?

That is fantasyland.

'Quietly' would mean not telling them, just stopping working the case and doing something else. None of us really have any idea what's going on.

It's just nothing seems to have happened for a long while. They had Bonds testifying in three months.

 

[Race Radio]

Yes and I wasn't sure what it was referring to, so asked for a link to the context. Without context, the quote is meaningless.

Meaningless to the willfully ignorant, everyone else understood it just fine.

 

[Mambo95]

Surely we can all agree he must have been talking about the investigation into alien life forms

So you still can't provide an answer to a simple question?

 

[Mambo95]

Meaningless to the willfully ignorant, everyone else understood it just fine.

Well tell me O Wise One, to what was he referring? Contador or Armstrong or something else?

 

[Dr. Maserati]

Well things have gone quiet for a long time and governments all over the world are cutting costs across the board, so it's a reasonable suspicion.

(I've seen the quote on twitter, but wanted to know what, specifically, it was referring to. No-one has provided an answer).

We have - you just continue to ignore it.

As for things going "quiet" - the only people to talk have been witnesses, Hamilton & Landis. The FDA, DOJ, FBI etc all remained quiet - so I don't see how continuing to be quiet shows anything.

Yes and I wasn't sure what it was referring to, so asked for a link to the context. Without context, the quote is meaningless.

The context was within the quote - "The investigators need to make sure they have their ducks in a row and then pull the trigger." - if you aren't sure what the quote was referring to you are beyond help.

 

[Dr. Maserati]

So you still can't provide an answer to a simple question?

It has been provided to you - you choose to ignore it.

 

[Mambo95]

It has been provided to you - you choose to ignore it.

No, it hasn't. No-one has either said what he is referring to or provided any context.

None of you actually know, because you've just seen the bare quote as well. You think you know what he's referring to, which may just be what you want it to refer to. Just blatently state your answer and back it up and I'll be satisfied, rather than skirting around the issue.

Howman didn't mention Armstrong at all in the interview as published by Benson. Had he done so and that quote actually does refer to LA then I would suggest that the case is moving ahead well and my suspicions are wrong. That's why I'm interested.

 

[Race Radio]

No, it hasn't. No-one has either said what he is referring to or provided any context.

None of you actually know, because you've just seen the bare quote as well. You think you know what he's referring to, which may just be what you want it to refer to. Just blatently state your answer and back it up and I'll be satisfied, rather than skirting around the issue.

Howman didn't mention Armstrong at all in the interview as published by Benson. Had he done so and that quote actually does refer to LA then I would suggest that the case is moving ahead well and my suspicions are wrong. That's why I'm interested.

Dan was talking to him at a doping in sport conference. Tell us, what other high level investigations are currently underway?

 

[Velodude]

'Quietly' would mean not telling them, just stopping working the case and doing something else. None of us really have any idea what's going on.

It's just nothing seems to have happened for a long while. They had Bonds testifying in three months.

We have no right to know about the status of investigations and if the GJ are finished, deliberating or have deliberated and been dismissed.

Last I heard was end of September 2011 that international investigators had hit the jackpot in finding a Swiss bank account traced to a Dr. Ferrari and funds were frozen. Transactions with Armstrong had been traced as well as telephone interceptions from Armstrong with Ferrari.

 

[Oldman]

No, it hasn't. No-one has either said what he is referring to or provided any context.

None of you actually know, because you've just seen the bare quote as well. You think you know what he's referring to, which may just be what you want it to refer to. Just blatently state your answer and back it up and I'll be satisfied, rather than skirting around the issue.

Howman didn't mention Armstrong at all in the interview as published by Benson. Had he done so and that quote actually does refer to LA then I would suggest that the case is moving ahead well and my suspicions are wrong. That's why I'm interested.

For those that think the "issue" has a)gone quiet b)is largely about Armstrong only need to look at the participants being addressed. Many here have contended that the nature of the crime and transfer of funds is the primary focus; not use by individual athletes. Houwman's statements seem to support just that. The fact that a high profile address is occuring would suggest that a press offensive is beginning; not ending.