Floyd Landis made it to the top of the cycling world with help from HGH, female fertility hormones, synthetic testosterone and erythropoietin. Throw in some blood transfusions for good measure. This started to come to light in 2006 when Landis was stripped of his Tour de France title, but Landis is only getting around to admitting guilt now, writes USA Today. His admission to the New York Times involved the year 2002 when he joined the U.S. Postal Service cycling team, which Landis marks as his pharmaceutical jumping off point. Landis could have left it at that, but instead he went on to attack Lance Armstrong, whom Landis claims won seven Tour de Frances with the help of PEDs.
Floyd Landis just wanted to clear his conscience
Floyd Landis decided the time had come to spill the beans to cycling officials, via e-mail. Landis told ESPN he couldn’t deal with the lies any more, but he came across like an attention monger. Landis said it was all a way for him to compete in cycling, and that he feels no guilt. Take the PEDs or depend on unsecured personnel loans may have been his altogether skewed manner of thinking. Lance Armstrong, on the other hand, was able to compete and pass his drug tests. That factoid didn’t seem to resonate with Floyd Landis.
Lance Armstrong has yet to Twitter this disturbing episode
This despite numerous damning comments in Floyd Landis’s e-mails, writes the Wall Street Journal. Landis claims that Johan Bruyneel, a manager for the team, turned him on to steroid patches, blood doping and HGH. An ongoing federal investigation has kept the other names Landis references in his tell-all e-mails out of the public eye. Landis also points the finger at U.S. cycling teammates David Zabriskie, Levi Leipheimer and George Hincapie. However, Floyd Landis also admits that he has no documentation to back up his claims.
What do you think about cycling? Does Floyd Landis have any credibility here?
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USA Today
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