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 included the year 2002 when he joined the U.S. Postal Service cycling team, which Landis marks as his pharmaceutical jumping off point. Then the disgraced cyclist made a point of accusing former U.S. Postal cycling team leader and champion of the sport, Lance Armstrong, of doping during his run of seven Tour de France victories.
Floyd Landis is disingenuous, to say the least
The rather glib Mr. Floyd Landis sent off a series of revealing e-mails to cycling officials. Landis told ESPN he could not manage 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. It was either that or make an effort to live off unsecured personal loans, in his estimation. 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, U.S. Postal team manager Johan Bruyneel was the PED “doctor” who set him up with all of the drugs a championship cyclist might need. An ongoing federal investigation has kept the other names Landis references in his tell-all e-mails out of the public eye. It is clear that Floyd Landis names current U.S. road racing national champ George Hincapie, three-time Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer and five-time champ of U.S. time trials, David Zabriskie. But in spite of it all, Floyd Landis has no hard evidence to back up his story.
What has happened to the sport of cycling? Is Floyd Landis just the tip of the iceberg?
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