[Lx]

I think you hit the nail on the head. Athletes hear that other athletes like Bonds allegedly take steroids and get away with it and think they can too.

I'm still leery since it's a French lab and race. As other have pointed out, testosterone won't help you in the short term so why take it.

I hope it all works out correctly, meaning if he took the drugs, strip him of the title, if this is more French chicanery, drop the charges and clear the guy.

[discostu]

Don't rule out the possibility (and I'm just throwing stuff at walls now, not declaring anything) that Landis was taking a masking agent that for whatever reason didn't work that day. Or he was just dumb, or the lab screwed up. It's all up in the air.