Hello Fello Freds.
The fourth and final installment of The FredCast from Interbike 2006 is on the way soon. I just need to edit the interviews and put them into the show, but between getting home at midnight last night and attending the Portable Media and Podcast Expo today and tomorrow, I’m still not done. Expect to see the show in the next couple of days.
In the meantime, enjoy the three previous shows this week and (you know what’s coming, don’t you) . . . enjoy the ride! 😉
To the 475 of you who downloaded Show #37 before I fixed the glitch, my apologies. GarageBand once again cut-off the last few seconds of most of my comments. Thanks to my lovely wife, Donna, I found out about the problem and re-uploaded a repaired version of the show.
Sorry about that!
UPDATE (9/26/06 11:00 am PDT):
It turns out that the problem was not with my host, but rather with the lame high speed internet access at my hotel here in Las Vegas. They have a firewall or some sort of router throttling that would not allow me to upload a large file to the host. Thanks to Marty at LibSyn for spending so much time with me this morning to troubleshoot this problem. So . . . off to Starbucks I went and my morning was sort of like a MasterCard commercial . . .
Drive to Starbucks — $.49 in gas
Grande Caramel Frappucino — $3.99
One Day of T-Mobile HotSpot Access — $9.99
Getting Your Podcast Online — Priceless!
The next show (#35) is ready for posting. It includes lots of info from the first day of the Interbike Outdoor Demo. Unfortunately, my podcast host is having network trouble and I can’t get it uploaded. I will keep trying over the next few hours until it works.
I received an email today from listener John who wanted to point out that I made a mistake in my reporting of the facts of the Frankie Andreu EPO story in Show #33. John pointed out that I incorrectly stated that Frankie and another teammate on the 1999 U.S. Postal Service team used EPO “several times during the race” (meaning the Tour de France). That is not correct, and I regret and apologize for the misstatement.
The correct statement is that Frankie has admitted to using EPO leading up to the race.
This wasn’t intentional, it was just a misstatement pure and simple. I will be certain to also correct this at the very beginning of the next show for those listeners who may not visit the web site on a regular basis.
My thanks to listener John for pointing out this misstatement of the facts.
In this week’s show I made a personal appeal. I am hoping that you will support me in my efforts on behalf of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society by donating whatever you can toward this very important and very personal cause.
If you would like to donate, please CLICK HERE and you will be sent to my personal donation page for the MS150 Bay to Bay Bike Tour. If you’re in the United States, your donation is tax-deductible.
Thanks for listening and thanks for your support!
David
Don’t despair. I haven’t podfaded. I’m just on a business trip and haven’t found time to complete this week’s show.
I am really sorry for the tardiness. Thanks for your patience!
You asked for it and now it’s here. I have finally added a FredCast shop where you can go to purchase t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs and other cool stuff (more coming soon). Please CLICK HERE or on the link on the side of the page to visit the store.
Your purchases not only help you to show off your pride in being a fred, but also go to help support the show.
And while we’re on that subject, have you ever noticed the links at the side of the page on thefredcast.com? The FredCast will accept your gracious donations when you click the PayPal link. And when you click a link from any of the other listed companies (Performance, Nashbar, Pro Bike Kit, or Amazon), The FredCast gets a commission on your purchases. Just be sure to click the link on this page (you don’t have to buy what’s advertised) and as long as you complete your purchase during that session, The FredCast benefits.
Enjoy the new store, and thanks for your support!
It seems I have been taking a bit of heat over my last show and the apparent lack of outrage over the Floyd Landis doping scandal. Several messages have been posted here on the site and on the forum, and I have received a couple of e-mails with the same sentiments.
I welcome the criticisms as much as I welcome the praise. It only serves to make the show better. Some people have actually thanked me for not censoring their negative comments. For the record: I would never delete comments just because they weren’t complimentary. The only comment I ever deleted from the site (aside from blog spam) is the one that did not contain the poster’s true information so that I could contact them and have a dialogue.
When I recorded the last show, the allegations against Floyd were just a few days old. The “A” sample had been tested, and he hadn’t even had time to request the “B” sample test. There was enough for him to be rightfully suspended by his Phonak team, but not enough for him to be subject to disciplinary action by the UCI. I commented on the show about all of the reasons why the tests could have been wrong, and I also commented that if the “B” sample came back positive, then Floyd should be rightfully shunned.
As far as I was concerned, my comments were measured. Not muted or biased as other have suggested, but merely carefully worded until the “B” sample results were in.
So let me be entirely clear . . . The results of Floyd’s “B” sample are now in and the results are conclusive. Floyd has been shown to have failed two drug tests, with a testosterone:epitestosterone ratio that is nearly 3x the legal limit. There are even reports in the press that the carbon isotope tests have shown that he had synthetic testosterone in his blood. According to the rules of cycling, it has been proven that he is a doper. Unless he can prove otherwise (and he still has the opportunity to do so), then he is and ever-shall-be a doper. I stand by what I said on last week’s show: he should be stripped of the Tour de France title, he should be fired by his team, and he should be subjected to a severe sanction by the UCI.
My feelings on doping and dopers are well-known; I’ve ranted on the subject plenty of times on the show. Dopers cheat. They lie. They are unethical and are unsportsmanlike. They sully the reputations of the rest of the peloton through guilt by association, and give the sport a bad name. They should not be a part of professional cycling or any sport for that matter.
Until and unless he can prove otherwise, this includes Floyd Landis.
I will be repeating all of this on the show I will be recording tonight, but I wanted to set the record straight as soon as possible.
The results of the tests on Floyd Landis’ “B” sample are in and they confirm the previous findings that he had an elevated T/E ratio. As a result, here is what is to be expected over the next days, weeks and months:
This whole thing stinks.
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