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The David Witt aspect of Flandistrophe

Shortly after the first revelations of Flandis' doping in the 06 TDF came out, his close friend, confidante and father-in-law, David Witt, came home from Europe and shot himself in the head in a public parking garage in San Diego.

Landis talks about this a bit in the ESPN interview, finally saying himself there was a connection (which was always obvious but no evidence).

I've speculated that maybe Witt was responsible for an error that caused Floyd to have too much testosterone in his system, and couldn't handle the aftermath, probably coupled with other issues. Anyone know if there might be something to this?
 
Ninety5rpm said:
Shortly after the first revelations of Flandis' doping in the 06 TDF came out, his close friend, confidante and father-in-law, David Witt, came home from Europe and shot himself in the head in a public parking garage in San Diego.

Landis talks about this a bit in the ESPN interview, finally saying himself there was a connection (which was always obvious but no evidence).

I've speculated that maybe Witt was responsible for an error that caused Floyd to have too much testosterone in his system, and couldn't handle the aftermath, probably coupled with other issues. Anyone know if there might be something to this?

Wow, another big step in an honest direction.

Dave.