WADA do about USADA???

Hello ZENers: a post without fun fotoz and graphix, mostly fact-based!
Starting with the address you should use...

http://www.usada.org/contact/ (I wrote to 'Media') :-)

...if you want to contact USADA, after reading this:

Hello USADA,

As one involved in extensive reportage about WADA, the Tour de France, the French governmental laboratory (LNDD) and the Floyd Landis case, I would respectfully request answers to the following questions, by someone familiar with the Floyd Landis case (Mr Tygart, if he's available, would be perfect).

My Questions:

1. In the Landis case, either anomalous and irregular testing at LNDD, or theoretical mis-application of 'masking agents' on Floyd's part, would seem to be the only two plausible sources of the one 'positive' test that LNDD produced.

Yet USADA has systemically disallowed Landis' attorneys' requests for information, while seeking extensive extraneous data from Landis: why does it seem that you are favouring procedurally the French LNDD over the American Athlete?

2. There is not one WADA CODE provision that calls for 'B Sample re-testing': what legal authority at USADA allows for the circumvention of WADA rules and CODE, to which USADA is a Signatory?

3. Would Mr Tygart be willing to allow the press to examine any telephone call-list from his office, to WADA, arbitrators, LNDD, the French Ministry of Sport, or any individual official of those organizations (naming Dick Pound, Professeur De Ceaurriz, amongst others), for the purposes of establishing illegal 'ex parte' communications regarding the Landis case?

4. On what legal basis or grounds (article of Hiltzik, LA Times, Apr 12 2007) is USADA comfortable with LNDD performing NON-blind 'testing' of one rider: Landis, when his identifiable samples relative to this case may, if again 'tested' negative, would likely provoke LNDD to face a process of dis-accreditation on grounds of:

a) illegal testing (requested illegally by USADA) no matter what the result;

b) improper testing and diffusion of confidential information (if new and illegal 'tests' are negative for the seven previously negative Samples);

c) if 'validation' of LNDD prior results (one positive) are 'substantiated' through the bias of LNDD being allowed, without independent corroboration, to perform, against the WADA CODE (of which USADA, LNDD and UCI are Signatories), these non-blind tests?

5. In the Hiltzik article, the follow quote appears:

"USADA wishes to subject the samples to an ostensibly more rigorous test than had been done."
Question: is an "ostensibly more rigorous test" implying the acknowledged failure of LNDD to perform according to the WADA CODE, and ISL/IST standards?

Or is the implication that a newly-promulgated test is available?
IF the latter, is that test already certified through the adoption by more than two WADA-accredited laboratories, as set forth in WADA Rules and Regulations?
If THAT is true, is the entire proposed re-testing procedure yet another violation of the WADA CODE, of which the USADA is a Signatory?

6. If requested by Mr. Landis, is the USADA willing to have the CAS/TAS give an 'advisory opinion' prior to May 14th, as to the presumed legality that USADA has adjured regarding these extraordinarily unprecedented requests made in the Landis case?

I have posted these questions on my blog, and am anxiously awaiting your replies: I have sent a copy of this email to various, concerned US citizens.

Thank you in advance for your replies, I will respect your decision whether or not you would choose to allow me to post them on my blog.

[Sincerely, Moi]

COURAGE, friends of Floyd!

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Pound's new CRUSADE against justice in SPORT

Dear ZEN-Readers!

You may love or hate:
Lance Armstrong;
Floyd Landis.

But you cannot deny the name of ONE man, who's illegal, premature and slanted opinions have cast a dark pall over those two Cyclists' reputations: Dick Pound.

Pound, long-time IOC Committee Member, former losing candidate for the Presidency of IOC (won by Jacques Rogge of Belgium: a Count, and a Surgeon!), has been at the Presidency of WADA since its inception. This is an unpaid post with extraordinary travel benefits, as ZEN-conjectured on March 21, 2007: WADA do about WADA?

Pound has been applauded for his zeal, in the fight against doping: sadly, he has slandered and libeled various athletes, contravening WADA CODE rules that limit publicity and confine the dissemination of information under strict confidentiality rules; to the point where he recently was chastised officially by the IOC for comments rendered against Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner who was unjustly accused in the French media for 'doping in the 1999' Tour.

You can read the Vrijman report, which chastised WADA, the French LNDD Lab, and L'EQUIPE newspaper reportet.

You can read also, the WADA retort, here. (NB: ZENmud is now reading it for you!)

What the Hell's NEXT for the world's biggest Sport-Ego?

For Dick Pound, a relentless, media-orchestrated, pre-meditated campaign is underway, to avail himself of the ONE JOB in Sports, that he has proven incapable of mastering: President of the CAS.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport, in Lausanne, Switzerland, is the final destination of any sport-initiated legal action for doping, as well as other non-doping, sport issues.

Why would the world entrust CAS to a man that has proven himself incapable of restraint, unable to refrain from manipulating the world's Press to influence already on-going sport litigations?

In his defense, he has stated that he would recuse himself from any litigation that came to CAS, as a result of his seven-year presidency of WADA. This is an interesting statement, since he would never act as an arbitrator while sitting as CAS President.

You can read about Pound's campaign here: http://www.edmontonsun.com/Sports/OtherSports...

You can read about CAS here (ENG):
http://www.tas-cas.org/en/histoire/frmhist.ht...

If you agree that the basis of fighting doping in sports begins with CLEAN athletes, and even-cleaner scientists, Labs and associated Anti-Doping Organizations, then you must take a pen and join in the fight against the nomination of this prejudiced individual to that post.

COURAGE

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