Originally Posted by robow
Go back and read the interviews, more than Dave Z. was told what they were going to try. It wasn't that big or well kept secret. ...
+1
It appears that there is more than one version of the story that is floating around. In version one (the first one I read), it was not explicit about the identity of the person(s) to whom Landis made the remark. Also in version one, it was stated that the word of the imminent attack had spread around the peloton and there was much grumbling about it. (Can't find the reference to this version unfortunately). Version two is the Bicycling.com version where Zabriskie hears the story... nowhere in the Bicycling.com story does it imply that Zabriskie thought this was a secret attack, nor even that he didn't tell others about it. Finally, what could the other teams could have done about it, even if they suspected before the start of the stage that Landis would attack when he did?