Earlier this week Floyd Landis would have been on top of the world but it would seem that it’s now all come crashing down with a positive drug test casting doubt over whether he’ll keep the winner’s Yellow Jersey from the 2006 Tour de France.
The Washington Post is reporting that he’ll skip his scheduled appearance on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show. Even Floyd’s website is ‘currently offline until further notice’.
Landis has tested positive for excessive testosterone levels. So far only the A sample has been tested. The B sample, taken at the same time, will now be tested. If the second sample comes up positive, he can kiss his tour win, and probably his career, goodbye.
I truly hope that it’s all a big mistake and that the B sample will come up negative, but somehow I think that’s highly unlikely. I really want to believe that Floyd is the ‘great guy’ and superb athlete that we all thought he was 24 hours ago.
If Floyd Landis is disqualified from the Tour de France I imagine that the finishing positions will be reshuffled. That would put Australia’s Cadel Evans up to 4th and Michael Rogers into 9th overall. It’s a hollow way to gain a position and I hope it doesn’t come to that, but at the moment it’s the only positive I can take from the situation.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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I’m just a casual cycling fan (meaning I only watch the Tour de France), but I’m still very shocked by this development. I hope it all turns out to be a huge misunderstanding.
I hope it is just a misunderstanding too. I didn’t pay much attention to the race but as Rodney mentioned it would be a hollow victory for anyone if Floyd is disqualified.
I can remember in the 1990’s Chris Grant from the Western Bulldogs in the A.F.L poled the most votes for a year. He should have won the Brownlow Medal but he got suspended for a week during the regular season hense why they call it the fairest and best award not just the best award. So Robert Harvey from the saints won the medal instead even though he only got the 2nd best amount of votes. Robert called it a hollow victory after he won the medal.
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It’s just so sad!
A friend of mine actually predicted something like this after his big victory on the final mountain stage. I don’t know which is sadder, the fact that such a performance would naturally arouse cynicism, or the fact that the cynicism would turn out to be correct.