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FIRED. Floyd Landis, 30, when a second urine sample the American cyclist provided after Stage 17 of the Tour de France also tested positive for synthetic testosterone, a banned performance-enhancing substance; by his Swiss team, Phonak. The top Tour official says he no longer considers Landis the champ, but the decision to officially strip the title rests with the International Cycling Union. Landis says he's innocent, suggesting cortisone shots, whiskey, dehydration and human error as possible explanations. Says his spokesman Michael Henson: "As an ethical athlete and human being, he's maintained cleanliness throughout...
...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, France, and an antidoping consultant to French and international sporting authorities. Phonak, the Swiss sponsor of Landis' cycling team, revealed last week that on the day of Landis' miraculous comeback, an abnormally high ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone was found in his urine. (Testosterone is a muscle-building anabolic steroid; epitestosterone, a related substance, has no performance-enhancing effects.) Specifically, Landis' testosterone...
...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 17th stage. Landis' team, Phonak, was notified by the ICU that tests performed after that stage, which Landis won after a monumental physical exhibition, showed an "unusual level of testosterone/epitestosterone ratio...
...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, or domestiques, deserve part of the blame. They couldn't keep pace to hand him food and water - essential domestique gruntwork. On the steep climbs, you don't want to wait for the team car for food and drink, because you'll have to use even more energy to retreat and return...
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