Platogrande: Sucker

We are shocked by Platogrande's take on the Floyd Landis fiasco.

We knew he was finishing up his docotoral thesis at an Ivy League university, but we didn't know it was in sucker studies.

Why not acquiesce to Floyd's request that the samples be tested at the UCLA lab, you ask?

Because the lab can't do it, fan boy.

From cyclingnews.com:

Former UCLA head Don Catlin, who recently stepped down, said that the laboratory could not provide what Landis was hoping for, anyway. "We couldn't do (the tests)," he said. "It was very clear and the reason we couldn't do them is that we had one instrument, and it was down." The particular test method needed is an instrument able to perform 'IRMS' testing to show evidence of exogenous testosterone.

Furthermore, Catlin said that the laboratory of Chatenay Malabry was bound to the same procedure standards than UCLA. "A WADA lab is a WADA lab," he continued. "I know they're card-carrying, full-fledged members of the (World Anti-Doping Agency) system. WADA holds everyone to standards. They do that with an iron club."

Anyway, the whole reason Flandis is even getting a second test done is to see how the lab reached it's decision in the first place.
"The Panel’s expert will identify if there are flaws in the testing equipment. That expert will determine if the methodologies are flawed," it said in the ruling.

Flandis does not want the sample tested because it contains exogenous testosterone and it will finally put an end to his charade.

Until then he is doing irreparable damage to cycling's image.

And he's a scumbag for doing so.

Plato, you're Rainbow Brite on this one.