Tour de farce
Floyd Landis feels he was thrown to the wolves when he was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France after testing positive for testosterone. And he believes cycling has a long way to go to restore its reputation
Floyd Landis couldn’t sleep last Monday night. A nagging question of timing was itching and itching at his mind, so he dragged himself up and went to his computer to check back across some dates.
It couldn’t be.
Surely not . . .
It was.
After climbing the legal ladder, following a testosterone positive that saw him stripped of the 2006 Tour de France, it was five days before the 2008 race started ...