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Floyd Landis (born October 14, 1975) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. At the 2006 Tour de France , he would have been the third non-European winner in the event's history, but was disqualified after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs .
The Floyd Landis doping case was a doping scandal that featured Floyd Landis, the initial winner of the 2006 Tour de France. After a meltdown in Stage 16 , where he had lost ten minutes, Landis came back in Stage 17 , riding solo and passing his whole team.
Positively False is the autobiography by 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis, published in June 2007 [1]. The book was written by Floyd Landis in association with Loren Mooney (the executive editor of Bicycling Magazine) and is put forward as the "Real story of how I (Landis) won the Tour De France".
Floyd Landis at the 2006 Tour de France. On 27 July 2006, the Phonak team announced that Floyd Landis, winner of the 2006 Tour, failed a test after stage 17 for an abnormally high ratio of the hormone testosterone to epitestosterone. On the day the allegations were made public, Landis denied doping. [47]
On 5 August 2006, the "B" test confirmed the initial findings and Landis was immediately dismissed by the Phonak team. [8] In June 2008, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed Landis's appeal, disqualifying him from the 2006 Tour de France, and so stripping him of his win and suspending him from the sport for two years. [9]
Floyd Landis at the start of Stage 18 of the 2006 Tour de France. On May 17, 2007, LeMond testified at a USADA hearing convened to weigh the evidence of doping by Floyd Landis during the 2006 Tour de France. Under oath, LeMond described a phone conversation he had with Landis on August 6, 2006, as well as another with Landis' business manager ...
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Floyd Landis doping case (2006) – Floyd Landis, initially the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, tested positive for synthetic testosterone and was stripped of his title. Doping at the 2007 Tour de France – the 2007 Tour de France was rocked by a series of doping scandals.