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Landis's win was a dream result for the Tour. For a few days at least, the comeback overshadowed yet another cycling doping scandal that eliminated several of the pre-race favorites, like Germany's Jan Ullrich and Italy's Ivan Basso. Their withdrawals could take nothing away from Landis...
Why did Landis implode on Wednesday? "It's not like we can download a cue from his body to see if it was dehydration, if it was heat exhaustion, if it was lack of calories," says Ventura. "The combination of all these things just zapped him completely." Landis' Phonak teammates...
Landis wasn't going to be caught short-handed again - he ate a ton on Wednesday night, and his teammates and he packed 70 water bottles for his miraculous Thursday trip. Some riders think his "bonk" could actually have helped him. "When you suffer that kind if implosion," says Thierry...
America's new spandexed sweetheart has big wheels to fill - you've won one, now go get six more (and at least a few against the big guns like Basso and Ullrich, when, and if, they can race again). Though Landis's tale doesn't include a return from cancer...
Even the French, no friend of American cyclists, admire Landis's panache. "Can he become the kind of star who gets people excited?" asks Gouvenous. "Why not? He sure did this week." After all, he went bonkers on the Tour de France field.