What are the chances Floyd Landis will be successful in clearing his name?
Murphy: Let say this: I’m reading and hearing that a lot of people are waiting on bated breath for the B sample. Floyd has told me that he himself doesn’t expect the test result to be any different. At that point he will then be fired by his team, Phonak, and then stripped — at least temporarily — of the Tour title. He will then appeal, and he and his lawyers will attempt to prove that this abnormally high ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone is, like he said repeatedly in his press conference on Friday, naturally occurring. He’s claiming that he’s in the 99th percentile of guys who just have a higher level. I just talked to Dr. Gary Wadler in Long Island [N.Y.]. He’s a specialist associated with New York University who helped come up with part of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s code, and he’s saying that this doesn’t all add up. There aren’t these dramatic variations in your test levels of testosterone; they’re fairly consistent in your life. There should be some record of Landis
