If you're interested in the Floyd Landis case and you have a half hour, head on over to the National Public Radio and listen to his Wednesday interview on “Talk of the Nation.”
It's part of his nationwide book tour to publicize “Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France.”
If you don't have a half hour, you can read an excerpt from the book that describes his ride on Stage 17 of the Tour de France. Hailed as a tremendous feat at the time, it soon became the center of doping charges that have been brought against him.
Landis writes that he told a few riders that he was going out on the attack. David Zabriskie, his former roommate, told him it was going to hurt. Former teammate George Hincapie asked him not to do it, because it would mean a lot of work for everyone.
In the interview, Landis said that it wasn't so much a “superhuman feat” on his part as a “tactical mistake” on the peloton for letting him go.
He said that he has no idea when the three-person arbitration board will make its decision.
Landis appears in Lake Forest Park, a suburb of Seattle, on Thursday.
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