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Floyd Landis takes case to YouTube
Carlton Reid Apr 4 2007, 5:30pm
First there was the 'wiki defense', now the Landis team has joined YouTube and has posted its first video. PLUS: cough $2000 and you too can have a yellow jersey signed by the 2006 Tour de France winner.
'Floydfairnessfund1' is a YouTube username created on 30th March. This is likely to be Michael Henson, PR man to Floyd Landis. Henson is featured in this professionally-produced YouTube video.
Henson is the executive director of the Floyd Fairness Fund, launched to help pay the Landis legal costs and to later have a life of its own as a defender of other athletes who may have been unfairly accused of doping offences.
Future and former contributors to the Floyd Landis Fairness Fund will get 'freebies', ranging from a signed thank you note from the Tour de France winner himself – for $75 contributions – through to a personalised, signed yellow jersey to those who cough $2000.
Donors who contribute $50+ get a thank you note from Henson.
Pay $5000+ and you'll get a personalised, signed yellow jersey plus invites to VIP receptions and Team Wiki Floyd Fairness Fund events.
At the moment, most of the contributions have come from the US. Non-US contributors can't get past the screen asking for 'State'.
In a linked move, Dr Arnie Baker, staunch defender of Floyd Landis, is to publish an e-book on the wiki defense at the end of June. This is to coincide with the launch of the Landis autobiography, 'Positively False.'
Baker has written 230 pages so far. Henson is contributing fifty pages on media coverage of the Landis case.
"When we receive the electronic data files from the lab, and other discovery, I’ll have more arguments," Baker told BikeBiz.com.
"I’ll add a section on our experts and their testimony. I’ll then have to cull any arguments still under seal by the arbitrators after the hearing. I’m for releasing everything we have."
