Floyd Landis and his team Phonak

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erikschmidt says:

That must have been a fun day, seeing all of the riders come in. The Phonak boys sure look happy. :-)
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

nardac says:

It was a great day. The riders are always so thrilled on the Champs Elysees to have the race over, with champagne and parties waiting in the night.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Nigel Stewart says:

This is so rockin'. Thanks for sharing. I TIVO'ed every stage and it was a fantastic Tour. Because of Floyd, I am going to race for the first time in my life @ 36.
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Kris Kros says:

Landis is a HERO!!!

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Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

snarkle says:

Great capture! You were very lucky to get a shot of them all looking so happy!
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Rune T says:

I wonder how his face looks today...
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

the first time he was in yellow, the commentators started to talk about how brilliant this guy was, that he was biking through pain, with his bad hip etc.... and then he does something as silly as this? is it all worth it?? boy oh boy... silly boy
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

nardac says:

Aren't people innocent until proven guilty? Don't you at least want an adequate explanation before calling him a cheat?
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

chdwckvnstrsslhm says:

Here Here! Innocent until proven guily! He lives in my city and no one here believes he cheated...
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

lukeman83 says:

Hehe I don't want to destroy your hopes, but local patriotism isn't going to save him ;-)

I'm myself a protectionist of the right "innocent until proven guilty" but I recently read an article that stated: In 99.9 % the B-sample supports the outcome of the first examination.

So all I'm saying is that I hope for you that he's innocent, but I myself had doubts in all cyclists long before this incident right now :-(
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

nardac says:

What irks me is how happy people are to shame him and how quick they are to judge him. It's a difficult and brutal sport, cycling, and not terribly lucrative for the most part. Imagine riding over 180km a day, in heat and rain, over mountains and hills. No wonder they take drugs.

At least he never seemed like a jerk, unlike that seven time Tour winner who's supposedly clean.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

lukeman83 says:

I know what you mean, and the only reason why I think it would be good if he was proven guilty is that probably harder rule of surveillance would be introduced. So it's nothing personal here :-)

I mean the sport is really tough, but there are men who don't use doping and it's unfair to them. Plus I think the whole sport loses its credibility if nothing happens in that field.

PS: Although it's going to be hard to rule out that dopingsuspicions once and for all: I just read an article, where a doctor said, he thinks Landis might have used blood-doping, which is not detectible. So even if new rules would be introduced that possibility would be there still :-(
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

nardac says:

Tyler Hamilton was caught blood doping two years ago. Operation Puerta in Spain is essentially about blood doping. There are ways to catch, if not detect, doping. Cyclists on the Tour are under quite a lot of surveillance. There are several random spot checks, all wearers of special jerseys are required to give urine samples immediately after they finish the stage, and they are visually monitored giving the sample (because cyclist used to hide bags of urine in their ass and pee out of a tube attached to their penis... Horrible.) Surveillance and drug testing in cycling has been a huge affair since the late 90s Festina affair.

Doping will never go away, not in cycling nor any sport requiring endurance and strength. It's just another aspect of cheating, and as long as there's sport, there'll be cheaters. Thinking otherwise would be like saying we could live just fine without clothes.

As for Landis, I don't know. It just doesn't seem to add up. If he were taking testosterone the whole time, why didn't it show up in any of the other tests? Taking testesterone for one stage isn't particularly useful. My theory, and it's half-baked, is that after his two beers and four whiskeys the night before the stage, a chemical reaction with some mild testosterone doping (is possible to calibrate testosterone patches by the micro-milligram), or his hormone treatment (which would be legal), aggravated the production of hormones in his body.
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

lukeman83 says:

I see. Didn't know that. Sorry that I didn't investigate closely enough. Didn't mean to spread false information ;-).
Well then. Let's see how it turns out...
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

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