Landis Continues to Fight

Today in Cycling News there is a review of a couple aspects of the Floyd Landis case. This makes me wonder why there isn't a fast track for doping cases within the UCI, WADA, USADA and whatever other doping agency is involved in these things.

Clearly the Landis case is very high profile and there are many lawyers involved, but isn't it more of a kangaroo court anyhow? It isn't as though they are appearing before the US Supreme Court or even a real French Magistrate. They are appearing before the CAS which isn't a governing body or a rule maker. At one point the Swiss Federal Court determined that CAS wasn't even a real arbiter due to their connections to the IOC.

Personally I think that Floyd is very guilty. Fake testosterone is fake testosterone. But because there are so many arbiters and appeal committees and different angles taken we aren't to the end of it two years later.

As a result the high profile cases stay in the news for a very long time and we never move on. Seems every other week there is something new related to Floyd. In baseball the Roger Clemens case was in the news for a few weeks, but has anyone heard anything recently?

So what is the answer? How do we go on from here? For ten years now no one has been able to answer this. From the Festina affair until now there has been no resolution and seemingly no path forward. I don't think any other sports are clean either, but cycling puts itself in the public eye as dirty all on its own. Baseball is just as dirty, but at least they keep more of their dirty laundry to themselves and let the fans enjoy the sport without all the public drama.