Originally Posted by donrhummy
They left the UCI only because iShares pulled their sponsoship and no other company would sign on with them (the fact that this was their NINTH rider to test positive had a greater effect than just Floyd testing positive). They had no sponship, i.e. ZERO money, so they had to fold. Had nothing to do with whether Floyd was guilty or if the lab had been sloppy or made mistakes.
I think you should reread those posts again......i said sloppy lab work about the positive test result.....and for the record....phonak had planned on leaving end of the 2006 season anyway. iShares was then to become the new sponser....but after everything that happened (that being landis testing positive) they backed out.