Corrupt Amish Boy wrote:
Where's Old Runner Guy now? An innocent man doesn't engage in obstruction of justice does he? Landis is scum. He should go to prison for it.
Right here!
Lemond relationship in the cycling community has been "strained" in recent years. He is very bitter that he is not considered the best american cyclist of all time. That's why he calls himself "the last clean winner."
And, this is not the first time he has done this exact thing. In 2005 during an Armstrong arbritration hearing, he testified that Lance told him "everybody takes epo." Armstrong testified that this was a lie (Armstrong won the case) Lemond also accused Lance is threatening his wife right before he testified.
The story is so one sided and make Landis look so incredibly bad because Lemond refused to be cross-examined. Essentially he went into the room dropped a bomb and then would not answer questions from Landis attorney.
(Arbritration hearings cannot compel a witness to testify like a regular court. And, the arbritrators asked Lemond several times to submit to cross-examination. Lemond attorney bluntly said they had no legal reason to refrain from testifying. Simply they did not want to. Meaning, thy knew what Jacobs was going to ask and they knew they would look bad so they refused).
Landis immediately fire Georgian and Georgian is seeking to hire counsel to defend himself against witness tampering. Georgian attempted to apologize for the call and Lemond refuses to accept it - perferring the Santa Monica police deal with it. Georgian has not yet said what he told Lemond or what his motivate was. But, he did confirm a 90 second call took place as Lemoind described.
Look for Landis to testify about his side of the story (as early as tomorrow).
Prior to the Lemond bomb, many obervers were thinking Landis was making good progress showing the paris labs has lots of problems in the way they did his test. While the Lemond thing is a PR disaster of huge proprotions, most think it wil carry little to no weight with the three memeber arbritration panel.