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Learn the Landis lingo
Carlton Reid Oct 10 2006, 10:00pm
On Thursday, Floyd Landis and his legal team are set to publish the 370-page document from the French lab at the centre of the current doping debacle. The tome will be released on Floydlandis.com and then dissected by interested experts from around the world, the so-called Wikipedia-defence. Floyd Landis watchers: get used to these acronyms
AAA American Arbitration Association
AAF Adverse analytical finding
ADRB Anti-Doping Review Board
ASO Amaury Sport Organisation, owner of the Tour de France and L'Equipe newspaper. Apparently does not own LNDD.
CAS Court of Arbitration for Sport
CIR Carbon Isotope Ratio test, a test for exogenous testosterone ie synthetic man-juice
CPA Professional Riders' Association. TUU? Totally Useless Union?
DICK head of WADA, Richard Pound, no friend of Nazi frogmen.
DPF Daily Peleton forum, the BBS chosen by FL to talk science, beer, TLAs and choice of uphill mind music
ERC Endogenous reference compound. A natural hormone that is used as reference to compare to.
FL Floyd Landis
GT Grand Tour ie Tour De France, Giro d'Italiia etc
G&T Gin and tonic. FL prefers 'Jack'
IRMS Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry test, another name for CIR
LDP Laboratory Documentation Pack (a 370-page LNDD vs FL document)
LNDD Laboratoire National de Dépistage du Dopage (the lab that tested both the A and B samples of Floyd Landis because UCI wanted tests done quickly)
OOC Out of Competition test
PED Performance Enhancing Drug
PTR Proficiency Test Results
T/E Ratio of testosterone and epitestosterone
TBV Trust But Verify blog, a major repository of FL data
TdF Tour de France
TH Tyler Hamilton
TUE Therapeutic Use Exemption, apparently lots of pro roadies are asthmatics
UCI Union Cycliste Internationale
USADA US Anti-doping Agency, a tight-lipped, protocol-abiding organisation. SFX: WADA and UCI top-brass on the floor, laughing.
WADA World Anti-doping Agency
