Seems Selena Roberts is gunning for Lance Armstrong again. The columnist has a story coming out in the January 24 issue of Sports Illustrated.
Here are a couple of hot previews from her story.
“• In the late 1990s, the Texan gained access to a drug, in clinical trial, called HemAssist, developed by Baxter Healthcare Corp. HemAssist was to be used for cases of extreme blood loss. In animal studies, it had been shown to boost the blood’s oxygen-carrying capacity, without as many risks as EPO. (Armstrong, through his lawyer, denies ever taking HemAssist.)
• One of the perks of traveling with Armstrong, former USPS rider Floyd Landis recalls, was frequent trips on private airline charters. Private airports often subject travelers to less stringent customs checks. But Landis tells SI about the day in 2003 that he, Armstrong and team members flew into St. Moritz, where customs officials requested that they open their duffel bags for a search. “Lance had a bag of drugs and s—,” says Landis. “They wanted to search it, which was out of the ordinary.” Sifting through Armstrong’s bag, agents found syringes and drugs with labels written in Spanish. As Landis recounts, Armstrong then asked a member of his contingent to convince the agents that the drugs were vitamins and that the syringes were for vitamin injections. The agents “looked at us sideways,” says Landis, “but let us through.” (Armstrong denies that this incident ever occurred.)”
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She seems to have changed her attitude from what she wrote on Dec 3, 2000.
“By Selena Roberts
Published: December 03, 2000
Lance Armstrong may have a chance to clear his name now that France’s sports minister has decided that she will not comply with a request from cycling’s governing body to destroy Tour de France riders’ frozen urine samples.
A magistrate had ordered two searches for the investigation of the Armstrong-led United States Postal Service team ”in which the urine samples were seized and placed under seal,” Minister Marie-George Buffet told reporters yesterday.
”This is great news because it gives Lance and the team a chance to be exonerated,” said Bill Stapleton, Armstrong’s longtime agent, who was attending the United States Olympic Committee meetings in Washington.”Lance’s name has been dragged through the mud. It will only get worse if there’s not an objective way to clear his name.”
Stapleton said there was some apprehension about a potential false-positive because a reliable test for the banned performance-enhancing hormone EPO has yet to be approved. But he added that it was better to get a result in order to put an end to the whispers circling Armstrong and the Postal Service team.
“A test would be the best way to find out the truth,” Stapleton said.”
If you search the web, you’ll find plenty of comments about her. She certainly has been controversial. Jeff Perlman wrote a piece about her demonizing the lacrosse players who were found to be innocent. He says she never apologized.
