Cyclist Floyd Landis' hometown paper got the inside scoop about the beleaugered Tour de France winner's new book from a close source, Floyd's mother Arlene.
Entitled “Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won The Tour de France,” the book is being written with Bicycling magazine associate executive editor Loren Mooney and is scheduled for a June 26 release, just before the Tour de France and after the results of his hearing on doping accusations are known.
I'm thinking they should have borrowed the title from Lance Armstrong's first book, and called it, “It's Not About the Drugs.”
Bernard Harris of the Lancaster New Era talked to Arlene Landis about the book. She said the first third of the book tells about Landis' childhood growing up in a Mennonite community in Pennsylvania and his development into a world class cyclist and the middle section focuses on his come-from-behind victory in the 2006 Tour de France.
The last section reports on the lab reports and accusations that he had a high testosterone-epitestosterone ratio and doped to boost his performance.
Apparently Mooney was in town just this week to interview Landis' mother and Mike Farrington, owner of Green Mountain Cyclery in Ephrata, where Landis used to hang out as a teen-ager.
The book is to be published by a division of Simon and Schuster.
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