Do you find any credibility in this claim? Is he really saying that by not naming names we'd doubt his admission of guilt and start suspecting him of being innocent? Did I miss something?
Steve
What he is saying is by not providing more detail people will not believe it. If he says lots of guys did it, but doesn't name lots of guys, it will be less credible. Canseco provided so much detail he actually got some wrong, had dates wrong etc, but as the baseball situation grew it became really obvious Canseco was telling the truth in part because he provided such detail.
My thing is that none of this makes any sense logically. Lance said that Floyd "lost his credibility years ago." Now stop and think about that, Floyd tested positive, was stripped, was publicly defended by Lance and others, spent 2 million dollars defending himself both legally and with "townhall meetings" and wrote a book detailing his defense and how he didn't cheat. The assumption is that Lance means he lied about not cheating and that cost him credibility but Lance defended him too, if Floyd was lying wasn't lance lying too? If lying cost Floyd his credibility now that he's telling the truth about his own PED use, you can't still say well he lost his credibility.
Remember at one time both Landis and Armstrong said that the reason Landis had been accused of cheating was they(USADA) were trying to pressure Landis to talk about possible doping by Armstrong. Greg LeMond even appeared at Landis' trial saying Floyd had admitted to him he doped but said he thought the situation was a witch hunt trying to get him to help officials get Armstrong. So for Lance to now claim Floyd lost his credibility just doesn't make sense because this is essentially exactly what Lance said was going on back when they stripped him. It's just that now Landis is talking about Lance(and others), then he was denying it.
One of the US cycling folks said it best to paraphrase he said I don't know if he was telling the truth when he said the tests were wrong, when he wrote his book, or now that he says he cheated. I just know that they can't all be correct. In other words at some point he clearly lied and for people to be saying he lost his cred years ago implies he was lying then, which means he's not lying now about his own use?
Bruyneel says he just wants to take others down with him, which certainly could be true but it's also the oldest defense in the book. Everytime some criminal turns informant and rats out people he's accused of that. When Louis Johnson told his story about OJ Mayo and Rodney Guillory the standard defense was that guys a criminal why believe him. Now we're getting it with Landis.
If Lance really wants to be believed the first thing he needs to do is provide the texts that he says Landis sent him over the last 2 years essentially blackmailing him. Lance says that Landis is mad his team wasn't selected to participate in the California race and that's why he came out with this. He said Floyd is mad, he's been threatening me for 2 years in text messages, this is just his next step. If Lance came out next week and produced those texts I'd be a lot more inclined to believe him.
Landis lied for 4 years, but that doesn't mean he's lying now, and given I believed all along he'd cheated, I'm inclined to believe him when he now admits he did cheat. It's then pretty hard for me to doubt when he says teammates did too, the level of doping that goes on in cycling is such that one guy on a team "going rogue" is very unlikely.
Just to be clear I strongly dislike Floyd Landis because aside from all the lying I will never forget his stunt at his trial where his manager phoned LeMond the night before Greg was suppsoed to testify and told him if he testified they would leak the story of LeMond being sexually molested as a child. So the next day during his testimony LeMond came out and told the story of being molested as a 6 year old and then explained he was telling the story because Landis' "team" was threatening to out him. Sure enough Landis fired the manager and it came out that Landis himself had told the manager about LeMond because LeMond had told Landis the story while encouraging him to tell the truth about doping so he didn't have to hide a secret for years like LeMond had been doing. That was about as low as it gets, but that doesn't mean Landis is lying now. he spent years doing whatever he could to try and clear his name, now I think he just wants to clear his conscience.
