USADA - Armstrong

[MacRoadie]

I think their message is pretty clear: "Be careful what you send us, we're lawyers involved in Federal litigation, and we'll be filing it with the court and it will be public record."

No bck room strong-arming (or is that Armstrong-ing?) this time around.

 

[mewmewmew13]

My popcorn is popping all over the place!

Wish we were all at a big party.

On another note...there are simply too many stupefying and seemingly idiotic moves by Lance's legal team for me to believe that they are really that lame.
I smell something else going on here...
smokescreen...diverting attention...whatever ..

Does anyone really believe that this assembled group of shysters is this laughably inept?
I'm still edgy ...something is not adding up.

 

[Digger]

Sparks has granted the extension in part. Armstrong's attorneys have until midnight to file their opposition to USADA's dismissal motion.

From NYDN twitter.

Sparks order: "As Defendants point out, it is incumbent upon Armstrong to establish the jurisdiction of this Court..."

Sparks con't: "...and he has had since at least July 9, the date he filed this lawsuit, to marshal his evidence on that point."

Sparks con't: "The Court is not inclined to penalize Defendants by substantially reducing their allotted time for filing a reply brief..."

 

[sniper]

USADA not pulling punches: "By our count, of the 21 podium finishers at the Tour de France during the period from 1999-2005, only a single rider other than Mr. Armstrong was not implicated in doping by a subsequent investigation. Yet, only a single one of these riders had a positive test with the UCI."

yes, as another poster said, this really is the hammer hitting the nail.

and look how McQuaid is clutching at straws here:

"This is particularly worrisome in this case because it is said to be based on witness statements only," said a July 13 letter sent by UCI President Pat McQuaid to USADA's attorney.

so who said that?

 

[Iker_Baqueiro]

WTF ????!!!!

What is going on?

UCI will save armstrong? the judge ruled in favor of armstrong?

I bet armstrong threatened the UCI to snitch them out if he went down.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

When everything breaks down, doesn´t normally the chief steps down to save the organization (it seem to happen every week in politics & business)? So i think McQuaid fights on his own with Heini. Who´ll be the next UCI president?

 

[Ninety5rpm]

(never mind)

 

[webvan]

Can't think of who that rider is from the top of my head?

 

[Trailzz]

Wish we were all at a big party.

On another note...there are simply too many stupefying and seemingly idiotic moves by Lance's legal team for me to believe that they are really that lame.
I smell something else going on here...
smokescreen...diverting attention...whatever ..

Does anyone really believe that this assembled group of shysters is this laughably inept?
I'm still edgy ...something is not adding up.

+1 for sure

 

[Microchip]

Wish we were all at a big party.

On another note...there are simply too many stupefying and seemingly idiotic moves by Lance's legal team for me to believe that they are really that lame.
I smell something else going on here...
smokescreen...diverting attention...whatever ..

Does anyone really believe that this assembled group of shysters is this laughably inept?
I'm still edgy ...something is not adding up.

I'm guessing that if the lawyers are fed up of Lance and know they cannot win, they'll attempt to find a way to back out of making themselves look more stupid. Maybe the quicker they get rid of him, the better.

 

[MacRoadie]

(never mind)

Still only seeing the July 19 USADA Motion to Dismiss...

 

[Race Radio]

Hehehe

Sorry, just have to say I told you so.

Things were going along fine. Fat Pat acknowledged that it was USADA's case.....Then Verburggen realized he will be exposed and panicked. Suddenly Pat starts spewing stupidity like he has Tourettes.

This is going to get sooooo much better. Just wait.

 

[Microchip]

Hehehe

Sorry, just have to say I told you so.

Things were going along fine. Fat Pat acknowledged that it was USADA's case.....Then Verburggen realized he will be exposed and panicked. Suddenly Pat starts spewing stupidity like he has Tourettes.

This is going to get sooooo much better. Just wait.

LOLOL! I need more pencils ... oh, wait!

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Hehehe

Sorry, just have to say I told you so.

Things were going along fine. Fat Pat acknowledged that it was USADA's case.....Then Verburggen realized he will be exposed and panicked. Suddenly Pat starts spewing stupidity like he has Tourettes.

This is going to get sooooo much better. Just wait.

RR you are always too optimistic. I mean i wish you are right, but i am suffering & shivering trou that whole thing since 2005 when i first thought LA is going down...

 

[Epicycle]

Hehehe

Sorry, just have to say I told you so.

Things were going along fine. Fat Pat acknowledged that it was USADA's case.....Then Verburggen realized he will be exposed and panicked. Suddenly Pat starts spewing stupidity like he has Tourettes.

This is going to get sooooo much better. Just wait.

Hein's carved himself out a lofty perch as a go-to-guy and do-gooder in the Olympic sports world.

 

[MacRoadie]

Armstrong is blaming the Olympics for being unable to file his response timely.

 

[argyllflyer]

Verbruggen's Olympics TV coverage for the roadrace was utter gash, for that alone he deserves to be toast.

 

[Microchip]

Armstrong is blaming the Olympics for being unable to file his response timely.

His lawyers were watching it?

 

[MarkvW]

This is going to get interesting. The UCI is (per Luskin). ORDERING USADA to stop. Independent drug testing is now DEAD as far as the UCI is concerned.

But, AFAIK USADA has no contract with the UCI. It has its contract with USA Cycling. The next step is for Lance's buddies at USAC to fall in line with the UCI and direct USADA to leave Lance alone.

Will USAC dare to do that? Can USAC screw with USADA without breaching its contract? What will the consequences be if USAC breaches its contract?

And what about the sleeping giant, the USOC? IF USAC breaches the contract with respect to Lance, then I doubt USADA would be docile thereafter. The Olympic Committee would be left without an independent testing entity for US cycling.

I am awed by how openly corrupt the UCI is.

 

[sniper]

LOLOL! I need more pencils ... oh, wait!

Indeed an inspirational turn of events
Curious what the next Pelotoon will bring!

 

[Merckx index]

On another note...there are simply too many stupefying and seemingly idiotic moves by Lance's legal team for me to believe that they are really that lame.
I smell something else going on here...
smokescreen...diverting attention...whatever ..

Does anyone really believe that this assembled group of shysters is this laughably inept?
I'm still edgy ...something is not adding up.

It’s the same bunch who filed that 80 pages of grandstanding that Sparks threw out. I can well imagine that, under pressure, they missed a rather arcane aspect of the law. I think what we are seeing here is what is actually going on.

So if I’m understanding this, Sparks gave LA one more day beyond the original deadline, because he wanted his input. But no more, because that would cut into the time USADA has to respond to LA’s response. Which means that he expects a response to the response, which I guess is due by Aug. 13? (But why a response to the response, yet not a response to the response to the response? How does this work legally?) And depending on when that response comes in, he might rule before Aug. 13, or on that date, or if he thinks it requires more time, later than that?

Can't think of who that rider is from the top of my head?

Escartin, I think. I’m just impressed that USADA included Klodi in its list of “implicated”. That guy has been pretty much Teflon. Really, Tygart could be a member of the Clinic in very good standing.

 

[Microchip]

Indeed an inspirational turn of events
Curious what the next Pelotoon will bring!

Wonder no more.

On topic, Lance & Company is finished.

 

[Race Radio]

Escartin, I think. I’m just impressed that WADA included Klodi in its list of “implicated”. That guy has been pretty much Teflon. Really, Tygart could be a member of the Clinic in very good standing.

Kloden paid 25K for his problems to go away

 

[Cloxxki]

His lawyers were watching it?

They were watching the American cyclist named Armstrong whom they had tallied to have been good for at least 500 doping tests over of the athlete's professional career, winning the Olympic TT.

 

[will10]

It's amazing how such a long, drawn out case can suddenly move quickly.