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"If it's something worse than that, he doesn't deserve to win." ARLENE LANDIS, mother of Tour de France winner Floyd Landis, saying she hoped the result of his drug test-in which the cyclist tested positive for high levels of testosterone-was due to the medication he was...
This one hurt. A sudden, fall-off-the-bike at 40 m.p.h., road rash, legs mangled in the wheel hurt. After Marion Jones, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, aren't we immune to the fact that our beloved athletes might not have achieved immortality on talent alone? Hell, no. Last...
Landis tested positive for abnormal testosterone levels, a result confounding and dumbfounding, given that a number of prerace favorites were tossed from the Tour under a cloud of doping suspicion. Could he have been so brazen--or stupid? "I hoped there was a genuine hero in the making," says Dick...
There's hope for Landis lovers inspired by his back-from-the brink tale: his guilt is far from established, and the case has other twists ahead. "It's going to be more complicated and longer than anybody thinks," says Gérard Dine, president of the Biotechnological Institute in Troyes...
"There is a lot of hypocrisy in all this", says Ech?varri. "It seems like the only problem here is that cycling is the scapegoat for a perfect [sports] world." But the Landis affair may redouble the call for reform, not just in cycling but in all of sports. "Let's...