Breaking: Floyd Landis tests positive for Illegal drug

[slowhand520]

Just heard this on the radio. Reuters reporting. No link yet

[laconic]

I hope you (or the radio) are wrong, period.

[llevrok]

he missed two races he was contracted to ride this week. This might explain that.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Who is he?

[staytrue]

It certainly looked like he was riding clean until that breakdown where he lost 11 minutes and then made a miraculous recovery to pull out the win.

If true, he probably resorted to doping at that point.

[expatpat]

If this is correct, the whole Tour de France blows up.

[One_who_hopes_to_know]

I hope you (or the radio) are wrong, period.

I doubt this is wrong ... Earlier reports are that Landis was inixplicably missing from planned events Wednesday. Also reported that one rider in the Tour de France had tested positive, but rules forbad the release of the name until confirmation. Landis team mates had stated he had gone to see his doctor in Germany.

[TankerKC]

Landis AWOL Amid Doping Rumors

[laconic]

I hope this isn't true but he WAS on the same team as Tyler Hamilton, whom Phonak kicked off after he tested positive for blood doping at the Vuelta. This is truly horrible news, if true, for his family and for US bicycling. If he did test positive, I can only hope it was due to some drug he took for his hip.

[Hatteras]

"If this is correct, the whole Tour de France blows up."

I thought it already did when all those riders bailed early on due to drug testing?

[fortunecookie]

Oh my, I'd heard a rider tested positive. I hope it's not him, a misprint.

[John W]

Breaking at top of MSNBC.com, "team says".

[One_who_hopes_to_know]

If this is true it embarasses Greg LeMond who earlier had slammed Lance Armstrong, but this week publicly praised Landis for being a great guy and a someone that was "clean". This was an intentional dig at Lance and the doping rumors that followed Lance.

[newgeezer]

Who is he?

Did your search turn up the answer yet?

[Republicain]

At that time, the only things we know is that Landis mysteriously missed a race in Denmark, and that a cyclist failed a doping test during the tour, but UCI has not revealed his name. At that point, everything else is rumors and maybe there's no link between these two facts.

[rawhide]

This morning’s edition of Danish paper Ekstra Bladet reports that the positive dope test at the Tour was recorded after the stage which finished at Morzine, which Landis won, and that the product involved was a stimulant. However, US Cycling has denied that the rider under suspicion was registered with them. The French federation has also said it has received no contact from the UCI suggesting it was one of their riders who had tested positive, and the Spanish and Italian federations have done the same. CSC press officer Brian Nygaard told Ekstra Bladet that the rider involved was not from the Danish team.

UCI president Pat McQuaid has refused to confirm whether the rider involved in the positive doping case is Landis, but has told a number of reporters that he is “very angry” with the news and admitted the credibility of the sport is in danger. He is quoted on the Italian Tuttobici website as saying: "It's the worst possible scenario."

source: http://www.procycling.com/news.aspx?ID=2341

[John W]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14059185/

[llevrok]

Greg LeMond who earlier had slammed

LeMond has become a bitter champion. Too bad he doesn't deport himself like Hinault and Merkx.

Anyway, back to Floyd....

[Republicain]

Sorry, it was in Netherland.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has tested positive for the male sex hormone testosterone, his team American Phonak said on Thursday.

Um, wouldn't it be news if he DIDN'T test positive for testosterone? :^)