yahoo news reported

[hawkfan]

That Floyd Landis failed a drug test. Tested posative for high levels of tetosterone. What is the point of competing when taking this stuff if you know you are going to get caught.

[Adidas410s]

F'n A Floyd....F'n A!!!

SHOW SOME POLITICAL CORRECTNESS FLOYD!!!:mad:

[Adidas410s]

LONDON -- Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday on its Web site.


Phonak said Landis would ask for an analysis of his backup "B" sample "to prove either that this result is coming from a natural process or that this is resulting from a mistake."
The statement came a day after the UCI, cycling's world governing body, said an unidentified rider had failed a drug test during the Tour.

And the statement came just four days after Landis stood on the victory podium on the Champs-Elysees, succeeding seven-time winner Lance Armstrong as an American winner in Paris.

The Swiss-based Phonak team said it was notified by the UCI on Wednesday that Landis' sample showed "an unusual level of testosterone/epitestosterone" when he was tested after stage 17 of the race last Thursday.

Landis made a remarkable comeback in that Alpine stage, racing far ahead of the field for a solo win that moved him from 11th to third in the overall standings. He regained the leader's yellow jersey two days later.

Landis rode the Tour with a degenerative hip condition that he has said will require surgery in the coming weeks or months.

Landis Biography
Born: Oct. 14, 1975, in Farmersville, Lancaster County, Penn.
Team: Phonak
Pro wins: 10
• Born in a community of Mennonites, a branch of the Christian Anabaptist church, Landis bought his first mountain bike at 15 and won the first mountain bike race he entered.
• In 1995, he moved to California and became a full-time rider. Switched to road racing and joined Lance Armstrong's U.S. Postal team.
• Split with Armstrong in 2005 and joined the Swiss team Phonak.
• Won inaugural Tour of California in 2006 as well as Paris-Nice classic and Tour of Georgia.
• Battled back from nightmare 16th stage in the Alps to win Stage 17 and set up Tour de France triumph.



Arlene Landis, his mother, said Thursday that she wouldn't blame her son if he was taking medication to treat the pain in his injured hip, but "if it's something worse than that, then he doesn't deserve to win."

"I didn't talk to him since that hit the fan, but I'm keeping things even keel until I know what the facts are," she said in a phone interview from her home in Farmersville, Pa. "I know that this is a temptation to every rider but I'm not going to jump to conclusions ... It disappoints me."

Phonak said Landis would ask for an analysis of his backup "B" sample "to prove either that this result is coming from a natural process or that this is resulting from a mistake."

"The team management and the rider were both totally surprised of this physiological result," the Phonak statement said.

Landis has been suspended by his team pending the results. If the second sample confirms the initial finding, he will be fired from the team, Phonak said.

Landis wrapped up his Tour de France win on Sunday, keeping the title in U.S. hands for the eighth straight year. Armstrong, long dogged by doping whispers and allegations, won the previous seven. Armstrong never has tested positive for drugs and vehemently has denied doping.

Speculation that Landis had tested positive spread earlier Thursday after he failed to show up for a one-day race in Denmark on Thursday. A day earlier, he missed a scheduled event in the Netherlands.

On the eve of the Tour's start, nine riders -- including pre-race favorites Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso -- were ousted, implicated in a Spanish doping investigation.

The names of Ullrich and Basso turned up on a list of 56 cyclists who allegedly had contact with Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, who's at the center of the Spanish doping probe.


Landis plans to have hip replacement surgery this fall to ease pain in the arthritic joint still aching from a 2003 crash during a training ride.

[Maroon87]

Don't most males have a high level of testosterone? :thinking:

I know I do...;)

[Gp83]

I have it pouring out my ears:doh:

[Macarthur]

i'm going to really withhold any judgement on this until all the facts come out.

europe really doesn't want an american to win this race. i would not put it past them to "manufacture" a story here. they tried like hell to nail armstrong. what the hell does "unusual high levels of testosterone" mean anyway?

[injuredinmelee]

do mininites (sp) juice?

[injuredinmelee]

his parents didnt even watch the final stage. The father said his son told him he would win so they went to church instead. They had planned on watching it at a neighbors house who actually owned a tv.