Fallen Heroes?

I recently wrote a blog entry about Fallen Heroes. After writing that entry, some folks pointed me to some articles that explain Mary Decker's innocence. And now, I'm reading a lot more about Floyd Landis and his "doping" test results. Turns out that Floyd did not test positive for testosterone as the press continues to say. The test showed a high ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone. The testosterone numbers were normal; it is the epitestosterone levels which were too low. Epitestosterone is nothing; it's not a performance enhancement. It's also known that after efforts of extreme exertion, an athlete's epitestosterone levels would get extraordinarily low. Now, anyone seeing stage 17 of this year's Tour de France would agree that there is no effort any more extreme than Floyd Landis' win at Morzine on stage 17. So, it's really a no-brainer that his e level would be quite low after that kind of performance.

Again, the issue is that the t/e ratio was skewed by 11:1, but the actual numbers, the testosterone numbers, were in the normal category. Floyd Landis did NOT test positive for testosterone. That's a fact.

Perhaps my heroes haven't fallen?