Landis Update

According to the AP, the B sample results for Floyd Landis will be released on this coming Saturday.  The story quotes heavily from a New York Times story (sorry, but I will never link to the New York Times, if enough people ask, I'll explain in a post) in which leakers are saying that the T/E ratio was over 11:1, and that the isotope ratio test for determining synthetic testosterone showed a positive hit.  The lab is speeding up its usual testing schedule because the entire facility will be going on vacation for two weeks starting Friday night.  Gotta love those European vacation rules.  Landis' doctor is hoping for false positives on the A sample for both the synthetic hit and the T/E ratio hit.

According to Gary Wadler, who has been quoted before, the synthetic hit only needs to be done once:

The rules say that it is a violation, but if you can show that the athlete had no fault or no significant fault, there could be a mitigation of the sanction.  No matter how it got there, the athlete has to show how it got into his or her body.  It could have been sabotage or contaminated dietary supplements, or something else, but they have to prove how the testosterone got there.

Now, I'm not one for propagating conspiracy theories, but this all seems very suspicious that the only synthetic hit on Landis came on the stage that sealed his victory.  As Wadler has said before, it just doesn't add up.