Digital trail reveals details of behind the scene talks
Lance Armstrong Team RadioShack counsel has published a long series of emails between Floyd Landis, the Amgen Tour of California race director Andrew Messick, Landis close friend, sponsor and physician Brent W. Kay. Steve Johnson, CEO of USA Air Jordan 3s Cycling and Steven Hess were copied into many of the emails.
The emails appear on the Team RadioShack website below a statement reiterating the denials made by the seven time Tour de France winner following Landis allegations.
Several emails are directed to Lance Armstrong but there no replies or correspondence from the Texan, Johnson or Hess included in the published emails.
Many of the emails concern attempts by Landis and Brent W. Kay to secure a place for the OUCH Bahati Foundation team in this year Tour of California. Messick explains his reasons why the team was not invited. Others refer to threats Landis claims to have received.
The email correspondence ends with an email from Landis inviting Air Jordan 14s Messick; Lance Armstrong and Dr. Brent Kay to a meeting with USADA on May 12.
Neither Floyd Landis or Lance Armstrong were immediately available to comment on the emails.
The email trail published on the Team RadioShack website:From: Andrew Messick
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:13 PM
To: Air Jordan 1s Floyd Landis
Cc: Brent Kay; S. Johnson; Steven HessYou have misunderstood our position. We are partners with usada and have a strong anti doping program for our race that enhances the uci’s efforts in this area. We are committed to doing everything in our power to have a clean race. If you have something to say about doping in cycling, tell usada. Johnson; Steven Hess
Sent: Sat Apr 24 19:06:12 2010
Thank you for clarifying the position of the Tour of California on these subjects. I just wanted to be sure that I gave you the opportunity to be involved in cleaning up cycling as I have with so many in positions of power such as Steve Johnson and Jim Ochowitz but as I expected the Tour of California is interested in the status quo as were they and I wish you all luck with that. I certainly understand that my revealing that Lance Nike LeBron 12 Armstrong has relied on blood doping, EPO, and anabolics to win the three Tours de France in which I helped him will jeopardize your substantial investment in facilitating his appearance so from a business point of view I understand fully.
However from a moral and ethical standpoint we stand in stark contrast. Thanks again for connecting me with Travis Tygart.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Andrew Messick wrote:
Thank you for your response and I’ll do my best to remember that you are new to cycling when trying to not feel insulted by your assertion that I am not capable of competing in an 800 mile race. I know that in the past the Tour of California has been adamant about preventing doping in it’s race, the suspicious lack of an EPO test in
2006 combined with the title sponsor who manufactures the drug notwithstandingI’m in the process of arranging, within the next two weeks, another meeting with USADA in which I name the racers and staff who helped me to use performance enhancing drugs and avoid detection and am led to believe, by the stance that the Tour of California has taken, that you would be Air Jordan 5 interested in joining us in that meeting so as to ascertain information about which teams to invite in the future.
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