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What he's referring to, of course, is the positive drug test that has thrown into doubt the inspiring victory last week of American Floyd Landis in the Tour de France. On Thursday the International Cycling Union (ICU) announced that Landis had tested positive for testosterone during the Tour's...
Landis is awaiting a counter-analysis of a B sample, in hopes that it will disprove the initial result. But that is unlikely, experts say; second tests almost invariably tend to repeat the first results. If the findings are confirmed, Landis will be stripped of the win and the yellow...
At a press conference today in Madrid, Landis continued to maintain he did nothing wrong, declaring "conclusively and categorically" that his Tour de France victory was the result of long years of training and "his devotion to cycling," not doping. Yet the damage to his reputation, and that of the...
The Landis scandal is just the latest blow to a sport that has had more than its share lately. First it was Tyler Hamilton, the Olympic winner in Athens, who suspended in 2005 for using illegal blood transfusions. Then came Roberto Heras, the 2005 Tour of Spain winner who tested...
Just when Americans thought it was safe to ignore the Tour de France, another scrappy U.S. cyclist and medical marvel has ridden into the breach left by Lance Armstrong. Pedaling with a bum hip, FLOYD LANDIS, 30, a Mennonite raised in Pennsylvania, didn't seem like the guy to bet...