I said Goldberger, not Goldberg. Although after Dr. Bruce Goldberger's testimony on Day 5 of the Floyd Landis arbitration hearing, you'd be hard pressed to determine who strikes the more imposing figure.Alright, I guess we can all come to an agreement that arbitrator Christopher Campbell is the most imposing figure in the Pepperdine University courtroom.
All kidding aside, Dr. Goldberger's testimony late Friday afternoon, or rather the adeptness of it, has literally torn off a gaping scientific hole in the USADA burden of proof that was already being perforated by Landis' attorneys, Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Suh.
For Team Landis, it could not have come at a better time!
The hearing that was turning out to be the Cirque de Landis, after Geoghegan's Jerky Boys impression and the subsequent bomb dropped by Greg Lemond, and the skillful double talking ventriloquism act of USADA's lead attorney, Mr. Young (as he's prompted and propped up almost every answer of both LNDD laboratory techinicians, Mrs. Morgongu and Ms. Frelat), has returned to the heart of the matter, the science.
Dr. Goldberger, who by his credentials alone, is the very definition of expert witness. The same could have been said for USADA's experts in the fields of testosterone and mass spectrometry, Dr. Brenna, Dr. Shackleton, and Dr. Ayotte (the latter of the WADA accredited Montreal lab), but with the evidence they were asked to defend, each sounded less than expert admitting through their own individual form (verbally or by claiming ignorance on all too familiar matters) that the LNDD had performed sub-standardly.
Grand Slam...Slam Dunk? Overly optimistic!
Reality. Mr. Brunet still has to be convinced, but Dr. Goldberger's testimony may have been bright enough to blind even Mr. Brunet with the science.
Goldberger's Testimony:
--Trust But Verify: Hearing - Friday Goldberger
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