Landis' B sample positive
Well there you have it. Floyd's B sample was positive. Phonak phired him immediately. Le Tour will probably ask for their yellow jersey back. Money too - all $576 Grand of it.
Floyd Landis is likely to lose his Tour de France title after a second drugs sample confirmed a positive test for excessive amounts of the male sex hormone testosterone.
A statement issued by the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Saturday said Landis's B sample taken after his win in the 17th stage on July 20 had confirmed a doping offence.
Landis, who again denied ever taking drugs, was immediately sacked by his Swiss team Phonak.
He will now probably become the first rider ever to be stripped of the Tour de France title for doping, lose 450,000 euros ($575,700) prize money and face a two-year ban from the sport.
"Landis will be dismissed without notice for violating the team's internal Code of Ethics," Phonak said in a statement. more
It's a long way from over, folks. Floyd and his lawyers are burning up the midnight oil coming up with challenges to the tests.
Do you think he stands a chance? I think he's toast. Another black eye for cycling.
Anything that happens from
Anything that happens from now on (regarding Floyd) will fall on def ears. The media has spoken, the fat lady sang.
Even if he is innocent, it wont matter.
Just my opinion.
I think if you ask any 10 people that dont follow cycling or care much about it (this would be VERY easy to do here in America where most people fit that description), I think you will find that 9 of them know, "that American guy who won the tour got busted for drugs".
Does it even matter that they are wrong? Looks to me like the fork is stuck so deep in Floyd that even his bad hip is forgotten.
The public is always right...they are the customer!
Good point about Floyd's hip
It's not even mentioned prominently, if at all, in any of these stories any more. Old news maybe, but for a while there nobody wrote about Floyd without mentioning his upbringing, his apprenticeship to Lance Armstrong, his work ethic, and his hip - all that adversity he had to overcome.
I get the impression people don't care so much about overcoming this particular brand of adversity.