Shocking
*Insert mock shock* A rider in the Tour de France tested positive for performance enhancing drugs? NO! Tell me it isn’t so? Unbelieveable! Say what? It was the winner of the tour?
Landis after winning the Tour de France over the weekend
Cycling has always been shrowded in controversy when it comes to performance enhancing drugs - especially at the Tour de France. If what is being reported about Floyd Landis is confirmed after they test his B sample (his A sample was found to have excessive amounts of testosterone in it), what little credibility the Tour has left will all but vanish. There is still a cloud hanging over the tour from Lance Armstrong recovering from cancer to win the tour 7 straight years. Although nothing has been proven, the accusations against Armstrong will continue until something can be proven against him. I’m not saying that I believe Armstrong cheated, but the numerous accusations levelled at him are troublesome. The Tour lost 1998 winner, Jan Ullrich, prior to the start of this year’s race following a doping scandal. If Landis returns a positive B sample, the sport will lose what little credibility it has left.
Sure you are entitled to your opinion, that’s what blogging is about, but it is well documented that physiologically, Lance is a mutation, with a heart the size of of horse. Nothing to do with drugs, except the chemotherapy stripped his upper body mass and got rid of the triathlon-generated muscle. However, if any cyclust is a drug pig, they deserve to go down. I’m not sure the millions of fans watching the sport really care about credibility, they are fanatics and will love the sport hell or high watre.
His heart is larger than normal people, but that is the same as all athletes. I never said that he took drugs and I won’t believe he did until it is proven, but when people who were once close to him come out and accuse him you just never know (of course this could be sour grapes too). Also, I think there is something fundamentally wrong if fans don’t care that the athletes competing in their sport are using performance enhancing drugs in some form or another. That’s what troubles me about all the drug policies of professional leagues in the U.S. - they are far too lenient.
Thanks for your comment.
Read this report by doctors, it’s interesting:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206001,00.html
I have a feeling that the shots he was taking for his hip may have something to do with the positive test result. It will be interesting to see what the sample B results will be.