The Smell Test

For those of you who went to a Floyd Landis Fairness Fund fundraiser, you're already familiar with Dr. Arnie Baker's colloquialism of certain LNDD laboratory procedures not "passing the smell test."

But now we can probably apply that same notion to the whole of professional cycling.

Bjarne Riis (photo: AFP), through mutiple denials and acts of hypocrisy; as he chided riders (Hamilton and Basso) formerly under his care of their recent doping indictments, has come out and admitted his own performance enhancing drug use (as T-o-03 mentions below).

"The time has come to put the cards on the table," said Riis. "I have done things which I now regret and which I wouldn't do again. I have doped. I have taken EPO. For awhile it was part if my life."

A former Tour de France stage winner, all of a sudden taking down one of cycling's greats? We all should have known that his breaking of Miguel Indurain during the 1996 Tour de France smelled a little funny.

Now you have to begin to wonder whether his adeptness of reviving careers as the Director Sportif of CSC smells right?