Landis Tests Positive!
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oops.... I guess he couldn't afford Lance's "guys".......
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Tour De France Winner Flunks Drug Test
LONDON (AP) -- Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday.
The statement came a day after the UCI, cycling's governing body, said an unidentified rider had failed a drug test during the Tour.
The Swiss-based Phonak said in a statement on it Web site that it was notified by the UCI 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 statement said.
Phonak said Landis would ask for 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 pending the results. If the second sample confirms the initial finding, he will be fired from the team, Phonak said.
Landis won the Tour de France on Sunday, keeping the title in U.S. hands for the eighth straight year. Lance Armstrong, long dogged by doping whispers and reports that he has vehemently denied, won the previous seven.
Speculation that Landis may have tested positive had spread earlier Thursday after he failed to show up for a one-day race in Denmark on Thursday. A day earlier, he missed a scheduled event in the Netherlands.
On the eve of the Tour's start, nine riders - including pre-race favorites Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso - were ousted, implicated in a Spanish doping investigation.
The names of Ullrich and Basso turned up on a list of 56 cyclists who allegedly had contact with Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, who's at the center of the Spanish doping probe.
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Tour De France Winner Flunks Drug Test
LONDON (AP) -- Tour de France champion Floyd Landis tested positive for high levels of testosterone during the race, his Phonak team said Thursday.
The statement came a day after the UCI, cycling's governing body, said an unidentified rider had failed a drug test during the Tour.
The Swiss-based Phonak said in a statement on it Web site that it was notified by the UCI 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 statement said.
Phonak said Landis would ask for 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 pending the results. If the second sample confirms the initial finding, he will be fired from the team, Phonak said.
Landis won the Tour de France on Sunday, keeping the title in U.S. hands for the eighth straight year. Lance Armstrong, long dogged by doping whispers and reports that he has vehemently denied, won the previous seven.
Speculation that Landis may have tested positive had spread earlier Thursday after he failed to show up for a one-day race in Denmark on Thursday. A day earlier, he missed a scheduled event in the Netherlands.
On the eve of the Tour's start, nine riders - including pre-race favorites Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso - were ousted, implicated in a Spanish doping investigation.
The names of Ullrich and Basso turned up on a list of 56 cyclists who allegedly had contact with Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, who's at the center of the Spanish doping probe.
can someone tell me why they don't find stuff like this out until after its over and done with and someone has won already? I don't know anything about testing or doping strategy.
So do we all go to his house and throw rocks at him?
What I find funny is the giant BREAKING NEWS banner on CNN.com right now........
What I find funny is the giant BREAKING NEWS banner on CNN.com right now........
More....
Tour De France Winner Is a No-Show
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/27/D8J4BU900.html
Mystery surrounds Landis whereabouts
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/27/060727125919.aeuhub3r.html
Tour De France Winner Is a No-Show
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/27/D8J4BU900.html
Mystery surrounds Landis whereabouts
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/27/060727125919.aeuhub3r.html
he's hanging out with dave chappelle in africa
We've got four threads going on this....this one, one in the DH forum, and two in the roadie forum. Someone needs to start one in the food forum. 
It could explain his heroic ride:
N8 said:
Didnt it just say he was suspended? Why would he show up?
i could never take some named "Dr Moosburger" seriously 
Nor could I, "put a standard testosterone patch that is used for male hormone replacement therapy on your scrotum and leave it there for about six hours."jonKranked said:i could never take some named "Dr Moosburger" seriously
No one goes into those obscure areas of RM much so it ain't Newz until it's in the Lounge!I Are Baboon said:We've got four threads going on this....this one, one in the DH forum, and two in the roadie forum. Someone needs to start one in the food forum.
lets just hope that he didn't really do this
Oh jesus....it's ALL a conspiracy.....
You mean like everone's hate for you?MMike said:
Worst of all I hear he's pregnant! But at least he knows it's his.
It was the beer!!!
he won the 17th stage so he's a mandatory testee. "IF" he is doping he either:laura said:
1. was taking all along and with his body working perfectly was administered the right combination to slip under the radar
2. was talking all along BUT with his body all screwed up from the day before sent his system out of whack and therefore sent up a flag
3. too big of a dose because of the day before and didnt listen when everybody told him to stay out of the top 3
nah he's just post-op
this is turning into a very nascaresque type situation.
fans crying and moaning because their favorite driver/rider didn't win.
and it had to be because the other guy was cheating/doping.
and so many rules and regulations, that nobody could possibly know all the ins and outs of what's legal/quasi legal/illegal.
both governing bodies, nascar/uci are currently doing more to tear their respective sports apart from the inside out.
(oh wait, i guess we can throw norba/usa cycling in the mix too.)
fans crying and moaning because their favorite driver/rider didn't win.
and it had to be because the other guy was cheating/doping.
and so many rules and regulations, that nobody could possibly know all the ins and outs of what's legal/quasi legal/illegal.
both governing bodies, nascar/uci are currently doing more to tear their respective sports apart from the inside out.
(oh wait, i guess we can throw norba/usa cycling in the mix too.)
A Møøse once bit my sister ...jonKranked said:i could never take some named "Dr Moosburger" seriously
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".