that’s dope…
Posted: August 5th, 2006 | Author: Jeff | Filed under: Sports | 1 Comment »in Floyd Landis’ piss in both Samples A and B–as confirmed today.
What I don’t get is how someone in this year’s Tour de France is so dumb as to take steroids despite last year’s allegations that Lance Armstrong probably had used steroids in the past (has not been confirmed). And the worst part is how Landis vehemently denies having used steroids. “My body naturally produces higher levels of testosterone…I drank a lot of Jack Daniel’s…I was dehydrated, etc”.
I can’t wait to hear his new explanation…wouldn’t surprise me if his defense went like this:
LANDIS: ”Well, they must’ve mixed up my samples with Barry Bonds’ and Mark McGwire’s.”
PERSON OF AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE: “Mr. Landis, we’ve conclusively determined that the urine in the samples belongs to you, through DNA testing.”
LANDIS: “I swear I didn’t take no DNA!”
You can retrieve DNA from urine if it has blood traces which does happen in many samples. Most notably when a woman is ovulating there is certainly a high blood trace, and in men, sometimes especially when you do take certain “drugs”.
Now if there is a technique to retrieve DNA from the blood/urea mix I don’t really know, but I’d sure like to.