Tour de France winner flunks drug test
LONDON - 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, raising questions about his victory.
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The team suspended Landis, pending results of the backup "B" sample of
his drug test, just four days after Landis stood on the victory podium
on the Champs-Elysees, succeeding seven-time winner Lance Armstrong as
an American winner in Paris.
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.
"The team management and the rider were both totally surprised of this
physiological result," the Phonak statement said.
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.
Landis rode the Tour with a degenerative hip condition that he has said
will require surgery in the coming weeks or months.
Arlene Landis, his mother, said Thursday that she wouldn't blame her son
if he was taking medication to treat the pain in his injured hip, but
"if it's something worse than that, then he doesn't deserve to win."
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