LeMond questions Armstrong at press conference
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- September
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CyclingNews.com reports that Greg LeMond started off the questioning of Lance Armstrong at the press conference in Las Vegas.
Here’s part of their report.
In the first seat of the front row was former Tour de France winner Greg LeMond, who led off the questioning with some pointed ones, all surrounding the theme of questioning the reason-ability of the planned special testing of Armstrong by Don Catlin of the UCLA lab.“I see Mr. Greg LeMond is here,” Armstrong said somewhat wryly, but allowed
him to have the first question.
LeMond pressed Armstrong and Catlin about the type of testing they had planned. He levied some reasonable critiques, essentially calling into question the proposed testing, arguing that it is not comprehensible enough, such as using T/E ratios and tests for specific EPO drugs as opposed to measuring physiological variables such as power output changes over time. LeMond inferred that a spike in power output would better indicate the use of something compared to trying to test for particular substances.
“That is not my area,” responded Catlin. “He will be subject to testing by everyone under the sun. I think that will be all sorted out.”Catlin said that the actual program is still taking shape. ”[Lance] has agreed to a couple of a few very fundamental points. One is his data, like T/E ratio and all that kind of stuff that a doping control is allowed to do will be on the web, so you can see it. ‘Ah, your T/E ration changed today, what happened?’ Like to see if he is taking EPO – all the actors to make it a very public campaign.”
“That is all irrelevant,” LeMond responded. “It doesn’t matter about T/E ratio but watts and power output…”
“I don’t think it is irrelevant,” said Catlin. “I dare say you know this business pretty well! Come with your ideas of what we should do!”
At that point Armstrong stepped in tried to move things along. “You’ve done your job,” Armstrong said to LeMond. “We are here to talk about a couple of things, like the Global Clinton campaign and my comeback to cycling. It’s time for us, everybody in this room, to move on. We are not going to go there, I appreciate you being here – next question.”
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