[EmpireWF]

News today that Tour De France winner, Floyd Landis failed a drug test during the race. The positive test saw high levels of testostrone. He's been suspended until a 2nd test of his comes back.

Talk about a hit to sports. Now this could all be fornot if the second test comes back negative so we'll see.

[Team Yates]

WGAL.com - News - Landis Denies Doping


Here's a link to Floyd's local news. I live in Lancaster and Floyd's from Farmersville, which is approximately 13 miles from where I live. So he's kind of a local celebrity since he won. I loved the Saturday papers headline when he won: "Tour de Floyd". I can't image shooting your life long dream up in smoke after all you did to get there. But there have been plently of cases with other sports "icons" who have "thrown it all away". I'm going to say that I don't think he "doped", not because I'm "local" but because I don't think he would have spent his entire life dedicated to winning this thing and turn around and taint it, especially since he may never have another chance to do it after his hip replacement.

[WVGrandma4Kasey]

I'm inclinded to feel the same way you do,wouldn't make any sense to me, and he would know that they test. ????????

[Team Yates]

Originally Posted by WVGrandma4Kasey

I'm inclinded to feel the same way you do,wouldn't make any sense to me, and he would know that they test. ????????

I wasn't aware of it, but at the end of each stage they test the winner. Yeah, there were several guys tossed out before the beginning of the race. I don't know much on this "doping" thing, but I got to think that it would show up in your system for quite awhile.

[blueandwhite]

They do it because they think they aren't going to be caught. It's arrogance.
he's claiming it's his own personal supply of testosterone - that he produces too much.

[blueandwhite]

Tests have come back, revealing that some of the tested testosterone (say that 3 times fast) was synthetic, meaning Landis is fibbing.

[EmpireWF]

Now Landis just looks like a crook. What a black eye for Americans in the international scene.

[blueandwhite]

And NOW he's claiming it was dehydration that made the high teststerone level. A prof in Montreal says if that was the case, all tennis players and marathon runners would test positive all the time and they don't. Plus Landis was shown drinking constantly while he was riding. Next, he's questioned the validity of the French lab. Which he never would have done if they found him negative to begin with.
Just fess up and stop wasting our time.
Second test results come out today, but they say with the results of the first, the second - if a negative - will not clear him.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by blueandwhite

And NOW he's claiming it was dehydration that made the high teststerone level. A prof in Montreal says if that was the case, all tennis players and marathon runners would test positive all the time and they don't. Plus Landis was shown drinking constantly while he was riding. Next, he's questioned the validity of the French lab. Which he never would have done if they found him negative to begin with.
Just fess up and stop wasting our time.
Second test results come out today, but they say with the results of the first, the second - if a negative - will not clear him.

Hey...there you go...I am sure that a dehydration pill to boost teststerone levels is jsut around the corner...