Just in time for the Court of Arbitration’s ruling in the Floyd Landis case …

I got an e-mail Sunday from Arnie Baker, the M.D. and bicycling coach/author who delved deeply into the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s case against 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis.

Baker has updated The Wiki Defense, an online book he wrote about the case. It’s available free of charge on Baker’s website. He said there are 100 new pages, and that the book is now 440 pages, but you can point-and-click basically to any point in the book and get the gist of it.

Essentially, Baker tears apart the case against Landis, whom he coached early in Floyd’s career, and comes to the basic conclusion that the testing of Landis urine samples was so fraught with errors and poor documentation to be rendered unreliable.

Baker said he isn’t being paid by Landis for his work on the case, so therefore he said his conclusions are without bias. He lists hundreds of references and has all of his source material available on his website.

It’s an unreal amount of work and documentation, and it’s available for one and all, so that regardless of what CAS decides Monday morning, you pretty much see the case Landis’ team presented in Floyd’s defense as well as its take on the case against him.

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