Originally Posted by
Jed19
Are you kidding me!
There was supposed to be a three man arbitration panel, and LA can name or veto one of those members, I think. He decided not to go to arbitration, which is very different from his MO. He has always fought with his own team of lawyers an
PR pros. By going to arbitration, LA and the rest of us would have seen and judge for ourselves the weight of the evidence USADA claims to have. From what I understand USADA has physical and eyewitness evidence.
We should note that LA tried in federal court to quash the USADA process, but lost.
Why not call USADA's bluff, go to arbitration, and if USADA lost, they would have been discredited irreparably?
It is what it is! Especially for a guy who does not ever back down.
Would that discredit USADA? Did it discredit all the other entities that investigated him in the past when they came up empty? Would it stop with USADA if he won? What's to say UCI, WADA, TDF or the RCMP wouldn't come after him next? At some point he does have to say enough is enough, and given that USADA bent their own rules in their pursuit of Lance, I can see why he may have been leary of going through their hearing process.