WADA done with Dick Pound

Friends of the Floyd-family, welcome again...

I came across some articles today, that indicate that Dick Pound, notorious anti-anti-doping regulator, buffoon on five continents, has seen his 'spreading wings' clipped discretely, and honorably (we would hope), as he ventured to wage a mass-media campaign for the ONLY seat in the world of competitive sports that he has proven himself incompetent to attain...

Wha???

You remember ZENmud's column of March 22, 2007, of course (he wishes)?

Pound's new CRUSADE against justice in SPORT

In which your Humble Narrator and Sage decried the loss of neutrality to that fine institution?

Well, that fine institution has been observing the coming storm, and has taken sufficient steps to prevent a debacle from landing from Montreal, via his first-class-ALWAYS seat on any airline.

Pound, whose rants rave constantly across Blogs, fora and better newspapers anywhere (if that isn't yet a non-sequitor outside the USA, at least), has been stifled by committee - the International Committee for Arbitration in Sport.

The website Gatorsports.com has this AP wire story, excerpted here:

"Italian lawyer Mino Auletta will serve as interim president of the Court of Arbitration for Sport up to three more years, meaning Dick Pound may have to wait until 2010 to launch his bid."

[.....]

"Pound,... expressed interest in becoming president of world sport's highest court. Instead, he was appointed Tuesday as a council member of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport, which oversees the administration and financing of CAS."

We cycling fans were as appalled as we could be, by the failures of the 'system' over which Pound has presided since the inception of WADA, as seen in the Floyd Landis case brought by the world's most incompetent laboratory, the French LNDD.

Nor were we encouraged to see his naked ambition flaunted across the face of the world's newspapers, as he indelicately strove to attain 'critical mass' in positioning himself, through press releases, as the future CAS/TAS president.

Someone heard, someone counseled, and *someone* has concurred.

Let us breathe easier, as we await the Floyd decision, and its inevitable appeal. Although the ZEN opinion is fixed, on Floyd's innocence (at least in the sense of 'failure to prove'), a question lurks in the ZENmind: would WADA or UCI or USADA appeal the ruling to come this summer?

On what basis?

Not having one desire to reopen the scabs that serve as a French lab's 'standard of work excellence', there is little grounds remaining if Floyd is declared 'not positive' based on these incredibly negligent work efforts by the French lab.

Pound will, according to the International Herald Tribune, join fifteen other members of the ICAS. ZENhopes that that is sufficient dilution of a caustic, acidic substance.

Courage!

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WADA do about Christian PRudhomme?

WADA do about Christian PRudhomme?

(quoi faire avec Christian PRudhomme?)

Encore une très mauvaise exemplaire de l'écriture de ZENmud en français, pour mes ami(e)s français(es), mes lecteurs et lectrices...

Car je voudrais essayer de vous convaincre, que la malaise qui tourne le monde du cyclisme, c'est une maladie à la française... et en tapant ceci dans mon 'français cowboy', vous pourriez bien comprendre que j'habite pas loin de vous tous, et j'admire le Tour de France, en sachant qu'il n y a pas aucune autre évent sportif, sur notre belle planète, qu'est digne d'en comparer.

Récemment, la direction dudit Tour a été confié à M. Christian PRudhomme, un journalist qui a ...

(mais t'as vu que j'ai tapé 'PR'-udhomme? Ben ouais! Car il était en journalisme, avec beaucoup de PR expérience ('Public Relations' à l'anglais))

... un journaliste qui a écrit beaucoup de choses concernant le Tour, autant de ses gloires comme ses plaies ouvertes.

Mais comment se passe-t-il, que ce Monsieur aux commandes de 'notre' navire de sport, ne voit-il pas les roches devant son proue? Et lui, en navigant notre navire de sport, veut-il pas les circumnaviguer? Veut-il nous détruire, les amateurs de ce sport, qui en fin du compte vont l'aider à gagner pas mal de salaire?

Je vous demande touts et toutes, d'y reflêchir longtemps.

Car PRudhomme exige ce rendement des comptes, par Bjarne Riis, ancien vainqueur du Tour de France 1996. Riis, qui a finalement su comment soulager son âme, en parlant de sa victoire du Tour et ses prises de dopage, notamment l'EPO.

Oui, Riis avait tort de le faire.
Oui, Riis nous a nié de sa participation.
Oui, Riis a été director sportif “ aux yeux fermées ”, évidement.

Mais a-t-on oublié déjà, nos douleurs en attendant les avoues de Richard Virenque, le 'chou-chou' de tous les français(es)? Et admettons-nous que le désir de voir un Tour enfin 'à l'eau claire' est devenu très possible, si on reste en concert ensemble: pêcher, c'est humain ; pardonner, c'est même plus humain, car on a tous besoin d'être soulagé de nos douleurs de temps en temps!

Mais regardons ses paroles, de Monsieur le Tour:

«Bjarne Riis l'a dit lui-même, il n'est pas digne d'avoir gagné le Tour de France parce qu'il a triché. [.....] Il a souillé le Tour .On chassera de notre mémoire cette montée de Hautacam. Ce n'était donc pas possible.» (l'Equipe)

Ce n'est pas à vous, M. PRudhomme, de faire quelque chose de Sovietique avec nos mémoires ! A qui voulez-vous nous passer nos souvenirs forts des années 90 ? Vers Jan Ullrich? Richard Virenque? Laurent Dufaux? Le moins qu'on puisse dire, c'est que Dufaux mérite plus que les autres, car dès qu'ils ont été pris, Laurent est le seule qui a avoué sur-le-champ, quoi!

Je vais partager avec vous tous, une idée que m'est écoeuré... C'est a dire que le Tour doit rompre tout liaison avec le Laboratoire national du dépistage du dopage, car c'est en passant des heures en suivant le Tour de Floyd et USADA, qu'on a appris le lassitude, et le négligence, qui règnent ensemble sous le tutellage de M le Directeur Professeur de Ceaurriz, qui préfère frimer avec Dick Pound et ses chefs au Ministre de la Jeunesse et du Sport, pour le gouvernement français.

Et notez-vous bien, mes ami(e)s : votre journal du sport, l'Equipe - n'a JAMAIS écrit quoi que ce soit, sur l'état grave de votre Labo français, le LNDD... ils le soutiennent même dans la lumière du litige Landis, dans la Californie...

Non, non, Christian, essaies-toi de te garder ta langue, et tes mauvaises pensées sous couvert ! Tu n'es plus le journaliste qui provoquera de la RAGE avec tes paroles insensées !

Laissons-nous voir comment et quand des autres parmi les équipes, les directeurs sportifs, les ex-racers aux micros, laissons-nous les entendre, pendant ils font le vide, cherchant les paroles pour dire à leurs propres enfants et femmes, leurs familles, comment ils ont 'tous' triché...

Faisant le lessive sera la meilleure chose pour ce sport que j'aime même plus que vous, évidemment!

Votre bloggeur humble...

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WADA do about Bjarne Riis???

Hello Bjarne!

I want to thank you, Bjarne Riis.

I want to share the burden you've made part of the public discussion about doping in the World's Greatest Sport: cycling.

I want to let you know, that there is nothing to me that would equal what you've done. (Photo credit: www.hiboox.com, edited by ZENmud)

You, who have felt the innocent desire that pushed you, adolescent, towards being the best athlete you could be. You, who began his career long before Lance or Floyd, you said this last Friday:

"I don't want the mistakes of my personal past to stand in the way of the work we are doing today. I did what it took to compete at the highest level back then, and it's a deep satisfaction for me that those days are long gone and the sport has moved in the right direction. If that wasn't the case, I wouldn't be here today."

I have long stressed the hypocrisy in a sporting world (that is ALL sports, which merit TV contracts, equipment sponsors and lucrative media interactions) that demands so much from its competitors: that hypocrisy, is that we want to 'believe' that you, 'they' are clean... and we demand this, to the point of ignoring the signals.

Bjarne, I believe your statements are cathartic.

I believe you have done the right thing. Whether a flood of confessions would follow is up to the KARMA of the other riders of your days. And those riders still, from epochs prior or post-Riis; will they contribute to this soul-cleansing?

Further, are we going to hear from the Futball stars, the hockey stars, the American-sports stars (football? Basketball? Field and track?), the Tennis world?

The worst thing that will come of this, Bjarne, is if your 'accomplishment' is not used to render positive the current, globally supported push for a clean, dope-free sporting world.

As you said:

"It's possible that I'm not a hero anymore," he said. "I'm sorry if I've disappointed people. And for those for whom I was a hero, I'm sorry. They'll have to find new heroes now."

You are more my hero now, than in these last years of 'did he/didn't he' debates! After all, look at those who followed you: Ullrich, Jan (same team, same suspicions for the rider from the former EAST Germany); Virenque, Richard (FESTINA team leader; confessed after two years of insinuations and denials: need we say more?); Dufaux, Laurent (Also FESTINA, but confessed nearly instantaneously (in itself a good, courageous confession)

That could be perverted, if the Christian Prudhomme's of the world attack your confession, if your 'mea culpa' is used as cannon-fodder to offer, disingenuously, 'proof' that the powers-that-be (DICK POUND, this means YOU; Travis Taggart, this means YOU) are themselves the source of the solution.

After all, Prudhomme's actions since taking over the Tour from preceding Director Jean-Marie LeBlanc have not produced a cleaner tour. One who never suffered on his own cycle, Prudhomme dances to the tune his paycheck offers...

Bjarne, let us think and be reasonable:
what could be worse, than having someone else who MIGHT confess, see what happens to you, and then decides for him or herself, against a similar cathartic moment of truth?

The World loses, and the world of SPORT would be the lesser.

You will sleep better and we, your fans, will also sleep better, in finding new hopes through the lessened hypocrisy of these times -

When the PAST generations tell the PRESENT athletes, as you have now done:

"We were wrong to win as we did, and we were wrong to insist that you speak the truth now, to incur this wrath that you haven't earned alone ..."

Then the FUTURE can be awash in heroic sporting accomplishments again.

ç*””*”*”*ç*””* ZENmud *””*ç*”*”*””*ç

BUSH league withdrawal pains...

ZENistas,

We take a deep breath from hot anticipated coverage of the Floyd Landis v USADA arbitration, to go back into the Macrovision world - the ZEN FIREWatchtower is mighty comfortable tonight...

Bush v Congress v Your sons and daughters in Iraq

If you read any of the White House Press Conferences, for which ZENmud admits a certain lassitude these last weeks, in anticipation of what is, for me, the Trial of the Century (don't ask: go to TrustbutVerify for the latest imbroglio involving Greg Lemond (sigh...)) ...

Sorry, at the White House: Bush wants to 'Stay the Course' without saying so, Congress (the People's House) wants to program a withdrawal. Bush wants to play politics with YOUR Sons and YOUR Daughters overseas, especially as he claims that it is the Congressional Democrats who are playing games with 'our enemies'... as in this Tony Snowcone exchange with correspondent Helen Thomas, from Tuesday's press conference:

MR. SNOW: The American -- again, if you take a look -- for instance, if you want to live and die by the polls, Helen, 60 percent of the American public say, let's go ahead and fund them.

Q Okay. They also say, let's get out.

MR. SNOW: Well, they do want to get out, but they also want to get out under circumstances of victory.

Q Well, is the President listening to them?

MR. SNOW: Of course. And the President also -- you've got to keep in mind, being President is a listening exercise and a leading exercise. And as a leader, not only as a Commander-in-Chief --

Q Does he think they should abide by any of their will?
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So I want to address the macro-pullout, not the 'who and when will they decide to'-factors, but the essential factor, seemingly un-addressed throughout the pundit-frenzied world.

Beating a retreat, would center on evacuations of US troops by coalition Air Force(s) support. How would these 150,000 soldiers, marines, etc. pull back? In ever-decreasing circles of influence, the ability to protect mutually a combined, shrinking circumference of safe evacuation zones...

Wow... it bloggles the mind... Meaning: I am troubled by ALL the actions of Bush, as readers are well-aware, but as much as we knew that the Pentagon had NO plans for occupying Iraq, I'm persuaded that, at least publicly, the Pentagon also has minimal plans for evacuation.

Through the Green Zone? Through several of the 'permanent' bases we've established? It would have to begin, logistically, from several points... but what do you do when your force is reduced to below critical mass?

Meaning: below the level that inhibits full-scale assaults?

Can the war Czar answer me, please? (I'm pretty sure you get to read ole ZEN'er once in a while; how's it goin' General?)

A Friday evening rant... good luck to Floyd on this incredible ride you're on...

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Floyding FRENZY ... the noose is wrapping...

ZENistas, Landistas,

I read this extract from the Los Angeles Times coverage of the testimony of Madame Cynthia Mongongu, at the point of cross-examination by Landis' attorney Howard Jacobs:

"Mongongu was also asked about a leak of the April results to L'Equipe, a French sports journal. L'Equipe's report that several of the tests had returned positive results appeared on April 24 — the morning after the tests were completed.

"Mongongu denied passing the results to L'Equipe or knowing who did. She also said that she was never questioned on the matter by the lab's director, Jacques De Ceaurriz."

Forgive me, but: you are a French Governmental employee, in a facility under the direction of Professeur Jacques de Ceaurriz, which is charged with:

a- testing, and if 'positive' confirming, and
b- keeping ALL results confidential.

Until proper 'results management' criteria can be followed.

Although in an arbitration, not a court of law, she is sworn to give truthful testimony.

As Landis' team of attorneys moves forward, they are wise to include all the aspects of the case showing repetitive ignorance (in both senses of the word: as lacking-in-knowledge; as taking-action-in-spite-of-the-rules) by LNDD of the sporting world they seek to serve.

But is it likely that de Ceaurriz would NEVER ask this person, at the heart of the controversy, a member of a team, which is now apparently sinking like the Lusitania, if she knew who was the LEAKER?

It is likely, if de Ceaurriz knows who the leaker is. It is also likely, if de Ceaurriz supports the unrestrained leaking violations of WADA CODE within his agency.

It is unlikely, on the other hand, for her to never be questioned about these leaks to L'Equipe, by the man in charge of maintaining a facility that is under WADA ISL and IST rules, as well as the pertinent ISO standard ( ISO/IEC 17025) for certified lab activities.

One by one, my friends, we'll eliminate the potential leakers: this has great auspices for the future dignity of sports-doping investigations.

Stand by for more fun...

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FLOYDING FRENZY - Day 3 FLASH

ZENistas, Landistas,

Welcome... Floyd!

Did you read the French newspapers Thursday?

ITF, the International Tennis Federation (link to French Le Monde newspaper report), WILL NOT have its drug testing performed by LNDD! They will be performed by the International Drug Testing Management (IDTM), says Le Monde.

See also 'Our nemeses', L'EQUIPE: this French-article touches on the 2006 process for Roland Garros doping procedures...before LNDD was hot on the FIRE of world press.

Sacré bleu!

What can be happening to the Greatest Lab on the Planet? This exceptional laboratory, which knows beyond anyone else who has doped?

Did you know that means these samples from the world's elite Tennis men and women of the world, will be transported (airplane? Pidgeon?), NOT the 18 km (or approx. 11miles) down the road to le Laboratoir National du dépistage du dopage, but to the far-away city of Montreal, some 3433 km (2,133 miles) across the Atlantic. (map courtesy of: viamichelin.com )

Sacré bleu!

These tests will be achieved in Montreal, says ITF, due to the high cost of the testing at LNDD (vraiment? / really?), while insinuations are rampant, if you read the French-language article (translation follows - ZENmud Global Translation Services):

"Le laboratoire national de dépistage du dopage (LNDD) de Châtenay-Malabry fait-il peur à la Fédération internationale de tennis (ITF) ?"

(Trans: "Does the National Laboratory for Doping Analysis from Châtenay-Malabry frighten the International Tennis Federation?")

As we've heard in the Floyding Frenzy testimony, LNDD produces THREE times as many positives as any other WADA-accredited laboratory...

Who shouldn't be afraid when science (like a military force?) runs amok?

You all know by now, that ZENmud rarely swears on this site, but! Now we SINCERELY BELIEVE that LNDD is not only FUCKED UP, but a RIP-OFF!!!

Thanks ITF, for showing the way forward... wonder if the Tour de France is also needing to save its sponsors' money this summer?

Stand by for more fun...

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FLOYDING FRENZY - who is COFRAC???

ZENistas know that the case against Floyd Landis rests on evidence accumulated by the Laboratoire national du dépistage du dopage (LNDD), a public French institution who maintains no evident public website, and which is spoken of in the past tense at the French Ministry for Youth and Sport website.

Wada??? :-)

Now we have heard recently that their LNDD facility has been audited by COFRAC, as this bit (at TrustbutVerify Monday Roundup, from a link to 7Sur7 in Belgium:

The second was performed by COFRAC, a certifying organization which audits the laboratory at Châtenay-Malabry every year to provide its certification.


Go to the website of COFRAC (parlez-vous??), there's a typical search square in the top yellow bar. Type in ° LNDD ° (only the initials).

You'll find three PDF documents: one is entered twice, and they are the "2002 Letter", of general information, such as this gem:

"The recent accreditation of the National Laboratory for Anti-dopage Testing (LNDD, as we know) of Chatenay-Malabry, which performs the testing on the Tour de France, is a good example." (of what COFRAC does, one presumes: translation by ZENmud himself).

Also is a 2001 Annual Report, which included this bombshell:

"With regard to health we should also mention the accreditation of the National Doping Case-finding Laboratory (LNDD) at Châtenay-Malabry for rapid analysis and confirmation of the presence of doping agents. This laboratory, referenced by the International Olympic Committee (CIO), is very active, owing to an increasing number of requests from the world of sport..."

ZENmud is suggesting, faithful readers, that COFRAC has no searchable data on the LNDD, which we have been assured is breathtakingly ahead of the scientific curve, able to develop strong new tests in a single bound! In an hour of time on this website, I find (famous last words?) evidence of 'testing request paperwork' but no archive (same word in FR) in which they publicly post the required data.

But the French don't seem to update their governmental websites: anyone from the French Ministrie du Jeunesse et Sport: please write to the ZENster! s'il vous plaît, RSVP avec les liens souhaités!!

Show us transparency, les gars ("you guys!")!

ç*””*”*”*ç*””* ZENmud *””*ç*”*”*””*ç

Floyding Frenzy Day TWO update

ALERT!

In yesterday's first morning testimony, Attorney Maurice Suh, just before the lunch break, was cross-examining witness Cedric Shackleton. In his series of questions,he asked him clearly 'You don't use bad chromatography [.....]?'

Shackleton's response, at EXACTLY 03:00:00, (LINK requires passwords, may be better if you start here)was AMAZING:

He clearly said "If I got this, I would send i- I'm sorry...." and stopped.

Suh had him! and unfortunately jumped at the witness' interruption, to ask him to repeat what he was going to say. HE WAS GOING TO SAY: "If I got this, I would send it [back to the idiot that did it!]"

That gave the witness enough time to realize the trap he had just managed to avoid.

His second response was NOT the same; it was clearly the answer that he is being paid $200.00/hour to state for the record:
"If I received this chromatogram, I would think that this was good chromatography."

For the record... that interruption was not the best way to extract the words from Shackleton. Suh should have said "Did you just say SEND IT BACK?"

A slam-dunk moment was avoided... crafty hesitant witness, against a lawyer that knew his moment had come and gone...

A first break in the case... remember where you read this!

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Floyding Frenzy : day TWO

Good Morning Europe,

Floyd Landis, victorious in last year's Tour de France, and who was tested 'positive' (barely hours before "L'Equipe" leaked the results... as is its dishonorable role in French society), has again begun its attacks against Floyd, the second consecutive victor from the United States (thus with Lance Armstrong, the pair has won eight of eight Tours de France since 1999).

Don't forget that friendly TbV has all the daily information! (in a classic Black-on-white blogsite design... heh heh)

Translated from their site by ZENmud himself, is the following article:

L'Equipe:

"I am really content that this is finally beginning. I am confident. We have a good legal team and an exceptional file. I only hope that the judges (Ed: the three arbitrators on an AAA panel) will be fair." Floyd Landis hasn't budged one iota. At the opening of his ten days of hearing by the American Arbitration Association following his positive test from the Tour de France 2006, the past leader of the PHONAK team once again denied having made use of doping products. From this hearing at Pepperdine University, the rider once again has put the onus on the analytic procedure that revealed this positive test, but hasn't, yet, brought forward the proofs that he announced last week as being "contradictory".

But his attorney has once again brought forward the presumed errors of the Châtenay-Malabry testing laboratory. "This case is a disaster without name," affirmed Maurice Suh. "And this disaster is not the result of one or two things gone wrong. It is the result of many combined things which aren't right." To which, the attorney for the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Richard Young replied "In spite of the attention that this case has received, the case is really nothing special. It's one case among many similar. Little matter the fashion in which the results are received, the results are positive." And the attorney concluded by reminding that the eight urine tests were all positive.

The 23rd of May, three expert arbitrators must determine whether or not Landis had taken testosterone. If they respond in the affirmative, the American will be subject to two years of suspension and the loss of his title as victor of the Tour de France.
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So there you have it folks: notice the last sentence of the second-to-last paragraph: "... the eight urine tests were all positive."

Sad to see sad journalism sadly supported. Floyd, as we all know, was tested eight times. ONLY ONE of his eight Tour-tests had revealed positive results after the urine testing of the A samples. Yet here again rises an insinuation, from what used to be a valiant and honorable French sports journalism source, revealing again the malediction that it has carried since becoming a subsidiary of the Amaury Sports Group, owners of the Tour de France.

The insinuation of eight positive tests, can only be a sloppy pass at reminding its brainwashed followers that the Arbitration Panel allowed certain "re-testing" to be performed at the LNDD facility, which itself is under contention. The 'evidence' gathered (and which may not be permissible as evidence in this hearing) was based on IRMS testing, not urine testing.

And while the urine tests were never eight times positive, what was revealed, through the misadventures of Floyd Landis' official witnesses to the process, was conspiratorily achieved through secrecy, lockouts and disappearing hard-drive data-sets, an evocation of 'positive' test results MANIPULATION.

But it's early in the process, and it appears that the stunning logic and determination displayed and combined throughout the united Floyd defense team, may give rise to hope that this Arbitration is going to proceed with some honor heretofore denied to the new American hero of world cycling.


COURAGE ... to Floyd Fans around the world!

ç*””*”*”*ç*””* ZENmud *””*ç*”*”*””*ç

WADA is as WADA does... USADA is as...

Zenistas...

What happens when the attorneys of the world find a new, great-publicity machine to drive their careers forward?

I'll suggest this: their caprices will find them losing their positions, their authority and their Bar membership (if from the USA; equivalents exist in many other countries).

Where they sought GLORY, they created DECEPTION, and reap SCORN.

What ZEN is driving you towards, is the acknowledgment that, in the Floyd Landis Case, we have literally had revealed that this case has at last entered Alice's Wonderland.

You can read the best coverage of the latest pre-hearing developments, by following these three links:


Landis arbitrator hopping mad USA Today discussing how Chris Campbell issued a scathing rebuke of the latest act by his co-panelist arbitrators of the Floyd Landis case;

Landis: USADA Wanted to Get to Armstrong Revealing AP report that the USADA has 'suggested' that they would give Floyd a 'light suspension' if he turned in Lance Armstrong (based on some other reports that you can seek on your own: I know not the source, other than one named cyclist, who may or may not be seeking his own glory-moment)

A Peek Over the Edge, and a Retreat Once again, great compilations and masterful knowledge is presented at TrustButVerify, the best Web source for FloydFans' news reviews and blogs...

These three articles will highlight for you the egregious and reprehensible, if not unethical or illegal actions. concerning the 'ruling' handed down last weekend, which excluded minority dissenting Arbitrator Christopher L. Campbell's dissent, which you'll find again through TBV.

My take, is written below. I've posted it in several TOPIX.net Floyd Fora, and also once, at the Daily Peleton Fora.


My posted comments follow:

This comment by Brunet is 100% disingenuous!

QUOTE:
According to an e-mail to the parties made available to The Times, Brunet said he later informed Campbell that he had been excluded because Landis had merely ask the arbitrators to clarify their original order allowing the retests. Because Campbell did not join in the original order, Brunet argued, he had no right to participate.
ENDQUOTE.

:-(

That order was on the biggest issue in contention, and was the brunt and focus of Campbell's dissent on the merits. "Clarifying the issue" on the merits on the table, includes REFINING what they wrote, which means REWRITING what they wrote, and which could have great import on the quality of the Campbell dissent!

Greater legal minds than mine (which is a fairly low threshold):-) can be certain that if any ORDER is being rewritten, the panel in toto should have ample time to find consensus were possible, and reasoned dissent could bring Brunet and the other panelist into a centrist position.(Me! Presuming fairness governs???)

If Interloc.Order ONE had said "The sky is blue." and Campbell dissented by saying "not where clouds appear", and the 'REVISED' Order said "The sky is blue except where clouds appear", "but we didn't need to consult Campbell to arrive at our REVISED Order", anyone could see the specious and frivolous treatment of this action by biased and non-neutral Licensed arbitrators.

Fortunately Brunet and McClaren will be off future WADA arbitrations as a result of egregious "détournement de pouvoir" (abuse of power)...

Who thought this summer was going to be boring???


(and my apologies to TBV, who hates my black-screen effect (certainly there are a million similar sites?)


COURAGE ... to the respecters of law in our world!

ç*””*”*”*ç*””* ZENmud *””*ç*”*”*””*ç

Sarkolepsy and Sarkamnesia

Hi My Friends,

It's begun with a yacht and a singer's exile...

How many North Americans know who Johnny Hallyday is?

The famous rocker and social icon of France... who announced only five months ago (en français) that he was quitting 'La France', to live in Switzerland, where after a six-month stay he could benefit from greatly-reduced taxes?

Is there any tie between the substantial victory of Nicholas Sarkozy last weekend, and the effect of his wife's announcement (en français) that the couple now 'envisaged their prompt return to France, where Sark0 had guaranteed to bring the top overall income tax rate down from 60% to 50%' (paraphrased)??

Thus the root of this query: did Johnny Hallyday announce his 'exile' into Switzerland, to influence French voters that love him, this French music icon, towards voting for Sarkozy?

And will the French press ignore this turn of events?

I, ZENmud, believe that this is a more pressing question than that of Sarko's three-day stay on this beautiful yacht...

A yacht that rents for over $150,000 per week, don't you know? Owned by Vincent Bolloré, this little boat has a full-time crew of 17 staff, and sleeps 12 guests in seven cabins...

Not bad, for the man, the newly-elected President whose entourage told the French press that he maybe would 'be going to a monastery (en français) to relax'...

Sarkolepsy...

Well ZENistas, what a weekend for those of us in Europe, watching both the French presidential election and cycling's Tour de Romandie, a six-day event that focuses its courses in the French-speaking cantons of Switzerland: Genève, Fribourg, le Vaud, le Vallais and Nuchâtel.

It's no surprise that crystelZENmud was in favor of the Socialist candidate, Madame Ségolène Royal, mother of four and pseudo-sister to a nation that knows it must change, while porting that cultural fear that always comes with change...

After all, twas the French themselves that stated “ Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose ”

('The more things change, the more they stay the same')... however they now have chosen Nicholas Sarkozy, son of an immigrant father (Hungarian), and a French-Greek mother.

What would change, if Angela Merkel and Ségolène Royal were to meet, perhaps in the summer of 2009, with an American NON-Bush president? If it were, say, a 'Hillary'???

Before sharing my observations on this man Sarkozy, allow me to do the ZENmud thing: the long-range...

This just-completed presidential French election occured one year before the US presidential election is slated to take place: after 2009, both countries will be seeking a new president, or by re-election, renewing their faith in their current office-holders (speaking in Post-November 2008 ZENterminology).

That would be nearly-simultaneous, in 2012: France will enter the summer knowing its destiny, and the United States will, hopefully, span the Christmas and New Year's holidays knowing their own president-elect is to start functions in late January 2013.

How the next four years will pan out, is hardly foreseeable. Hopefully the US government would find the means to close permanently this painful Bush-psycho-chapter in the middle-East, America's self-insinuated disaster, in the last years of this first decade of the new Millennium.

How will France reduce its Statist economy, always the Continental Liberals' goal, while not forcing perpetual strike activities by targetted 'recipients de la largesse de l'Etat'? Income taxes exist still, that range up to 60% of salaries; the immigrant youth block, with unemployment rates at nearly the same stratispheric levels, may not see the connection between falling tax rates on the 'overburdened' rich, and falling (presumably says Sarkozy) employment rates on the 'overstigmatized' poor, most often depicted as those living in the 'banlieus' of Paris, or other large French cities.

Did Sarko say anything positive? He called on the USA to substantially address the reality of global-warming, as well as encouraging its leadership to take a vibrant lead in commercializing the better aspects of renewable energy resources. Let's give the man one point...

Is ZENmud pessimistic about the coming reign of Sarkozy? Yes...

Is ZENmud as pessimistic as he was when Bush the Lesser 'stole' the election in 2000? Yes...

But the singular hope that differs between supporting the pain of a Bush election, and supporting that same pain from Sarkozy's election this last weekend, the Sixth of May 2007, is this: in the French system, legislative elections follow the presidential second round, by a month.

That means, unlike in our all-in-one-day national election cycles, that the French have a month to react and digest the news of the incoming President, and react accordingly as they vote for the Parliament with whom he will work...

Imagine if Bush was 'elected' as he was, in 2000, and then separately received the Congress with whom he would then work? Maybe their system has even more 'checks and balances' than this system we've used for over 200 years...?

COURAGE les françaises, et français!

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Tour de Romandie... 2007... Neuchatel

Ciao Tutti...

Here's a first ZEN original... If I don't get busted for C-right violations, you can see my first Tour film, of the Tour de Romandie!

Here's a link to the YouTube location, in case this doesn't work (trial and error?)

I am chanting in French: 'Allez, allez, allez' or 'Go go go!'

So let the Invisible Cloud Beings allow this to be published... otherwise I have to edit that gook off of this page!

Ciao tutti, more to come this weekend!

Bon course!

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Que faire avec LNDD? // WADA do about LNDD???

e vais faire mon deuxième post en français pour mon blog, pour mes lectures et lectrices francophones, qu'est – comme on peut le voir – déjà rédigé en anglais.

Je l'écrirai car le but de mes paroles est de mettre en evidence les comportements des dirigeants et staff du Laboratoire nationale du dépistage du dopage (LNDD), des faits concernant 'leur cas' contre Floyd Landis, et bien cachés des lecteurs de la presse myopique de France.

[Moi? Je suis ZENmud – soyez les bienvenu(e)s – soyez “ relaxe ” ; et je vais prier de m'excuser de mon acccent français un peu 'cowboy'... venant du Colorado... ]

Pour quelle raison n'est-il pas possible de lire, en France ou en Suisse, et dans le monde entier, comment le LNDD a réagi la dimanche 22 avril, 2007? Pourquoi était-il nécéssaire, contre toute réglementation de l'AMA, d'exclure les deux experts de Landis, pourtant mandaté d'y participer et témoigner du bon déroulement de ces testes 'supplémentaires', ce dimanche-là?

Et en plus! On vient de savoir que le Labo LNDD sont dans le boue avec des rapportages à propos l'éffacement des disques durs des ordinateurs qu'ont stocké l'information et contenus crus du dossier de Landis! Du JAMAIS vu dans le monde de lutte anti-dopage...

Pour quelle raison, chères lectrices, chers lecteurs, a-t-il été nécéssaire d'accepter que les représentatifs omniprésents de l'USADA (l'Agence des Etats-unies d'anti-dopage), soit légale, soit scientifique, pour ces tests, pendant que les experts de Landis étaient exclus, évidemment, du dernier jour de ces tests?

Pour quelle raison encore , mes amies, mes amis, n'est-il pas dégueulasse à savoir que, pour le N-ième fois dans l'histoire courante des 'incidents anti-dopage', que le très influent journal sportif et français, l'Equipe, a réçu comme fuits, et contre le CODE d'AMA concernant le confidentialité, ces résultats concernant VOTRE vainqueur du dernier Tour de France, Floyd Landis? Et contre toute réglementation d e ce CODE, et en plus le “Code of Conduct” pour les staffs des laboratoires?

Ce dernier a été établi précisement pour empêcher ces laboratoires de permiter ces fuites, ces resultats précoces? Ces laboratoires, en tête du queue le LNDD, qui comme ses confrères sont tous Signatoires du CODE d'AMA, et qui ont un grand résponsibilité concernant les droits des athlètes? Quelle mobile est lié à ces fuites repétitives quasiment permit par l'AMA, qui fait rien les concernant, malgré les preuves, les 'confessions', et le conflit d'interêt entre l'Equipe et l'Amaury Sports Organisation (ASO), un société français qu'est propriétor de l'Equipe ET le Tour de France?

Mais? Ca vous concerne pas?

Je suis triste, moi, de l'entendre...

Par des paroles de l'expert américain Paul Scott, anciènnement directeur des services clients du laboratoire de l'UCLA (Uni. de la Californie en Los Angèles):

“ Dans mes années au labo de l'UCLA, je n'ai jamais vu des choses pareiles comme je les ai vécu au LNDD hier [ndlr: 22 avril 2007]. Des limitations sur Simon Davis (un expert du testing 'Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry', aussi selectionné comme observateur par Landis) et moi-même ont démontré un manque d'objectivité dans ce processus, autant que c'est montré l'interet de l'USADA de controller et limiter nos observations du 'retesting' est en tout, c'est qu'un examplaire d'un des plus énormes problèmes dans la science fondamentale d'anti-dopage que j'ai jamais vécu. [Traduction par ZENmud Language Srevices] ”

Comment était-il que vous n'avez pas lu ces phrases dans l'article de l'Equipe, ce dimanche-là, ou le lundi d'après?

Revenons aux choses sérieuses concernant le toujours-vainqueur du dernier Tour de France, et ses droits civiques, autants valides dans cette affaire que dans un litige d'un quelquonque Tribunal legal. En donnant le feu vert aux tests supplementaires des échantillons 'B' du coureur de Pennsylvanie, le panel arbitrationel a tranché l'utilité de ces 'retests' comme 'étude longitudinal du coureur' au lieu de les recevoir comme un “ Adverse analytical finding ”, ou 'AAF'. C'est à dire qu'on ne peut plus inculper Landis à cause des 'preuves' tardives, accumulée derrière les portes fermés et veillés par VOS policiers, évidement...

(Ou ai-je tort? Quelqu'un du labo, peut m'appeler n'importe quand!)

Il faut bien retenir comme fait, que la question à propos l'admissibilité des resultats de ces tests est une question legale, toujours devant le panel d'arbitration ; soit ils seraient admis, soit ils seraient exclus. Or, on peut imaginer, suite à des fuites, suite à des exclusions perpétré par le staff du LNDD contre ces experts mandatés par Landis, et le laisser-passer donné aux experts et jurists de l'USADA, qu'il y a quelque chose qui cloche dans le monde de la lutte anti-dopage en France.

Y-auront-il des langues mauvaises françaises, que diraient que LNDD 'est mondialement respecté' et donc ces allegations de Landis n'ont pas basé en aucune fondation juste ?

Ont-ils oublié, les françaises et français, ou n'ont ils jamais étaient informé, que le LNDD a été le sujet des lettres des hautes fonctionaires représentants des deux grands Fédérations sportives olympiques, suite à “ L'Affaire Armstrong ” où Lance a été mis dans le collaméteur grâce aux tests et fuites (encore merci à l'Equipe !) geré aux niveaux les plus hauts du LNDD? Que l'AMA s'est mise à balailler touts ces concerns légitimes sous le tapis? Regardons cette photo, montrante Professeur De Ceaurriz at M. Lamour, Ministre de la Jeunesse et Sports

Faut-il que je vous rappele encore, que l'UCI a publié un rapport substantif (en anglais), à plus que 120 pages, montrent les éfforts malsains prises entre l'AMA et le LNDD, par le très connu avocat néerlandais M. Vrijman, avec des faits grossiers donnant une très mauvaise impression du professionalism de ce labo français.

Venant des Etats-unies, mes frères, mes soeurs, je me bat pas contre vous...

Ayant vècu ces derniers dix ans parmi vous, en suisse romande, et en aimant ces paysages plein de paysannes, des vignerons, de la terre : ce sont ces terroirs que font sortir des coureurs qui vous adorez, qu'ensemble ils vous font rever, et alors cette magique me touche, moi aussi.

Je me bat, je vous encourage, comme j'éssaiais ces derniers quatres ans de convaincre mes concitoyennes et concitoyens américain(e)s, de vous lever en haut, et ne pas rester persuadés que votre journal l'Equipe, qui vola et volera l'information confidentielle, qui viola et violera les droits des athlètes, n'a pas publié tout le verité.

Tout ces athlètes ont besoin, et ont le droit, de savoir que le système les concernant va protèger leurs droits, pour que les 'convictions' de dopage ne trainnent derrier eux les sportifs et sportives innocent(e)s.

Après le 14 mai, date fixé pour le processus Landis devant ce panel d'arbitration, commencera quelques semaines de reflexion entre les avocats-juges de l'arbitration. Parmi vous, je reconnais que vous restez persuadés, grâce à l'Equipe, que Landis est autant 'culpable' qu'était Virenque ou, comme beaucoup parmi vous penser toujours, M. Armstrong.

Mais en lisant le CODE, le Standard international des laboratoires (ISL), le Standard international de testing (IST), avec ce “ Code de conduit ” offert exactement pour protégér tous les athlètes des fuites d'information par bias des inconnus payé par l'Equipe pour ce faire...

Moi, ZENmud, je serais un des plus décus si Floyd est rendu coupable, “ accablé ” par ces tests et analyses mal-administrés par des incompétents recherchers qui préfèrent tous et toutes de NE PAS faire leur boulôt, qui ont peut-être un certain nationalism dans leurs point de vu?

Est-ce plus que possible que le LNDD sera sanctionné après les fuites de cette arbitration ?

Bien sûr !

Est-ce possible que, pour ce prochain Tour de France, le Ministre du Sport aura besoin d'engager un autre laboratoire accredité par l'AMA, pour effectuer les testes des cyclists du prochain Tour de France?

C'est possible...

Ce, je sais bien : si Floyd Landis est inculpé sur l'évidence présenté par le LNDD, pendant que l'évidence contre le LNDD est MILLE fois plus acablant, l'injustice rendu se servira d'enterriner le Tour de France.

Là, vous pouvez vous rassurer, ZENmud vous a offert de la verité.

Le verité vous accueillerait, un jour...

COURAGE les français, et françaises!

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