Former San Diego Resident Floyd Landis Second Test Proves Positive, Is To Be Stripped Of Tour de France Title
Saturday August 5, 2006
It might be both one of the most perplexing acts of stupidity as well as most damaging to an already reeling sport, but former San Diego resident cyclist Floyd Landis was fired by his team and the Tour de France no longer considered him its champion Saturday after his second doping sample tested positive for higher-than-allowable levels of testosterone. The samples contained synthetic testosterone, indicating that it came from an outside source. Read more about this breaking story on Sports Illustrated's website.
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This “article” contains misinformation–there was an imbalance in his testosterone versus his epitestosterone, not an actually high testosterone level– and is stupendously out of date on what turned out to be a complex case. See trustbut.com blog for detailed coverage.