[Axlrose]

Yep this is breaking now.

[FlipWilson]

Sounds fishy to me. Another American wins and voila, a positive drug test. hmmmm.

[RexBeach]

So, does this mean Mr. Landis will have his title taken back?

[Paradox]

We were discussing this in another thread. Major suckage, assuming he also fails the test on his other sample.

[CollegeRepublican]

Any nature reason to have elevated levels of testosterone?

[stevio]

This is highly suspect since he's in France, none of their males have any.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

No matter what, the joke has to be said:

Are the French whining because an American tested more manly than them?

[WestTexasWend]

testosterone

...the absence of which explains why the French can't win.

[2banana]

Maybe he ate alot of hamburgers while he watched football...

[nhoward14]

"unusual level of testosterone/epitestosterone ratio"

I guess the French aren't used to seeing levels above 0.0.

[Sloth]

I'm trying very, very hard to care about this.

[Humbug]

Was stage 17 where he made the great comeback?

[wildwood]

this is ridiculous. everyone knows what happens if they dope up and that they will be tested, particularly after what happened with lance. i just find this whole thing absurd. something STINKS to high heaven here...

the french don't bathe, do they?

[MizSterious]

I wondered how long it would be before that bunch of bad sports and sore losers would launch accusations.

[NapkinUser]

I wouldn't be wholly surprised if the French are just lying to make themselves feel better about losing to an American....again.

[jw777]

Serves LeMonde right for spouting against Armstrong when he always tested negative and then touting Landis, and then this.

[tallhappy]

C'est impossible, incroyable.

Why does anyone care about a bike race (in France for that matter).

As we know from this web site, winners of this French bike race would never ever ever in a million years ever use a performance enhancinmg drug.

[Diddle E. Squat]

This story is Breaking News at the top of Fox News' website:

http://www.foxnews.com/

Same for CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/

And MSNBC:

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

ABC:

http://abcnews.go.com/?lid=ABCCOMMenu&lpos=ABCNews

CBS:

http://www.cbsnews.com/

Drudge:

http://www.drudgereport.com/

BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

AP:

http://www.ap.org/

Rueters:

http://today.reuters.com/news/home.aspx

Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC have several times interrupted their news with "Breaking News" on this story, but of course here on good ol' Free Republic once again one of the mods has a hardon that anything even halfway tangentially related to sports can't be news and must be banished to chat.

Al Qeada could blow up Yankee Stadium and he/she/it would try to move all threads about that to chat.

But of course a hot dog eating contest can stay in Breaking for days. Nice consistency.

[TommyDale]

They probably measured his testosterone against the French standards.

The French have no testosterone!! LOL