Tour de France cheater?

[Torqameda]

Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday on its Web site.

The statement came a day after the UCI, cycling’s world governing body, said an unidentified rider had failed a drug test during the Tour.

The Swiss-based Phonak team said it was notified by the UCI on Wednesday that Landis’ sample showed “an unusual level of testosterone/epitestosterone” when he was tested after stage 17 of the race last Thursday.

Landis made a remarkable comeback in that Alpine stage, racing far ahead of the field for a solo win that moved him from 11th to third in the overall standings. He regained the leader’s yellow jersey two days later.

“The team management and the rider were both totally surprised of this physiological result,” the Phonak statement said.

Phonak said Landis would ask for an analysis of his backup “B” sample “to prove either that this result is coming from a natural process or that this is resulting from a mistake.”

Landis has been suspended by his team pending the results. If the second sample confirms the initial finding, he will be fired from the team, Phonak said.

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

What do you think about this?

 

[Legomyeggo]

He was using w.legs. Silly speed hackers.

 

[Farys]

After making fun of east german athletes during cold war or even chinese athletes, I find it VERY funny to "discover" US athletes use as many hermes quenchers as every other very evil and mean communist nations LMAO

 

[alanon]

After making fun of east german athletes during cold war or even chinese athletes, I find it VERY funny to "discover" US athletes use as many hermes quenchers as every other very evil and mean communist nations LMAO

Except for the fact that he got caught by the most unreliable test around. A lot of people are "caught" via false-positives with this test. EVERY time that the test is appealled before the international cycling commision, the results have been overturned. EVERY TIME, 100%, NO EXCEPTIONS. How reliable a test can that possibly be? I mean they found NO substances, nothing. His testosterone levels were not even higher than normal, it was just that the lower level testosterone(can't remember the name atm) showed lower levels than normal and threw the ratio off.

Seriously, the tour de france is becoming the tour de joke, or tour de witchhunt. I was turned off before it started when they kicked off all the top racers and now they continue well after the end. It's all France too, they are getting no backing from the ICC. Time to move it. Tour de Aussie, mate?

 

[Strid]

Loosers are criers is what I think.

 

[Farys]

Except for the fact that he got caught by the most unreliable test around. A lot of people are "caught" via false-positives with this test. EVERY time that the test is appealled before the international cycling commision, the results have been overturned. EVERY TIME, 100%, NO EXCEPTIONS. How reliable a test can that possibly be? I mean they found NO substances, nothing. His testosterone levels were not even higher than normal, it was just that the lower level testosterone(can't remember the name atm) showed lower levels than normal and threw the ratio off.

Seriously, the tour de france is becoming the tour de joke, or tour de witchhunt. I was turned off before it started when they kicked off all the top racers and now they continue well after the end. It's all France too, they are getting no backing from the ICC. Time to move it. Tour de Aussie, mate?

Cool down, boy.
What you gonna say now? That he didn't use flee hack and that he's innocent?
Like Carl Lewis?

update : lolgatlin!