they all do it. the cycling world knows this... On 7/27/06, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > Most Popular Movie Searches on Yahoo! > Rosario DawsonClerks IIBrad PittUma Thurman > Kate Bosworth Jennifer Lopez > > > 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." > > ..... > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060727/ap_on_sp_ot/cyc_floyd_landis > -- > ~~~ Ray Champagne :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ > >
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