Originally Posted by
Bacciagalupe
Even as recently as last month, a lot of the pro-Landis camp were still proclaiming the usual: the labs are sloppy and incompetent; the UCI / ASO / WADA / USADA any organization with an acronym are both incompetent and hate cyclists; "The French" hate Americans.
LNDD was sloppy AND incompetent. I don't know how reading through the transcripts could give any other impression. Even WADA's lawyers gave up in cross examination of certain witnesses due to making the situation even worse.
That's an extremely important issue. You are never going to clean up the sport with a comical lack of lab standards, techniques, training, knowledge, competence. They're really lucky the CAS sided against Landis, that way they could clean up their act quietly.
But it takes effort to be informed about what really happened, it's far easier to be snarky.