OLN bicycling commentator Phil Liggett was interviewed about the Floyd Landis affair last weekend by Carlton Reid of UK-based BikeBiz, a bicycle industry newsletter. Reid posted the interview online at YouTube.com in his Cycling News & View series.
“I'm still very skeptical about the whole thing,” Liggett says. “The Laboratory (Châtenay-Malabry) is unscrupulous to say the least, because they shouldn't know the sample they're testing.” …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/18/phil-liggett-skeptical-about-floyd-landis-case/
“And the more you get out there and talk about it, I have to talk about it. The best is just to let the process play out and get out of the media. … I would have encouraged him just to lay low. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/12/bicycle-quote-armstrongs-advice-to-landis/
Floyd Landis appeared on Jay Leno's Tonight Show to offer still another possible reason why he tested positive for a high testosterone level in the Tour de France.
“I don't know if it's somehow or some way I ingested something that caused the tests to be that way,'' Landis told Leno. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/09/floyd-landis-new-explanation-for-doping/
If you still want to believe in Floyd Landis, then you'll want to read his interview in USA Today.
Landis, who's holed up at his home in Murrieta, California, blamed the leaks from Union Cycliste Internationale for his having to scramble to try and come up with an explanation for the out-of-whack testosterone-epitestosterone ratio. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/07/do-you-still-believe-floyd-landis/
It's a black day in cycling. As most everyone expected, even Floyd Landis, the much-anticipated “B” sample came back positive.
The 30-year-old Tour de France winner was immediately fired by the Phonak team. He'll probably lose his Tour de France championship as well, depending on the action of the US Anti-Doping Agency. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/05/floyd-landis-sample-positive-phonak-fires-him/
While we all sit around waiting for the French lab to test “B” sample from the Tour de France, here's what's happening on the Floyd Landis front.
Nothing. But that doesn't stop the flow of information. Here's a news item, a blog about organic chemistry, the reliability of lab tests, Bob Roll asking questions and a video from the Steven Colbert Report:
Landis has hired Howard Jacobs of Los Angeles as his attorney. Jacobs specializes in athlete-doping cases and was Tyler Hamilton's attorney. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/03/all-floyd-landis-all-the-time/
Synthetic testosterone was detected in the Floyd Landis urine sample taken after Stage 17 at the Tour de France, an unidentified worker in the Union Cycliste International's anti-doping department told the New York Times.
If true — none of this is official, the latest comes from an unidentified source — it would fly in the face of the Tour de France winner's contention that the high ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone was a natural condition of his physiology. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/08/01/more-bad-news-for-floyd-landis/
Since a doping allegation is no frivolous matter in the sport of cycling, Floyd Landis skipped the Jay Leno show Friday night for an interview by Larry King on CNN.
“I'm going to do my best to defend my dignity and my innocence,” the Tour de France winner told King.
Lance Armstrong spoke on the show in support of Landis' character. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/29/floyd-landis-defends-himself-on-larry-king-show/
Danish journalist and photographer Joergen Leth narrates a photo essay on the Tour de France at Magnum Photos.
We're talking 35 mostly black and white images taken over the years of the Tour and its environs. Add a little accordian music for a pleasureable experience. Magnum Photos, a cooperative owned my its photographer members, has …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/28/photo-essay-on-tour-de-france/
We may know as early as Monday the results of an analysis of Floyd Landis' “B” sample and whether the American cyclist will be able to keep his 2006 Tour de France championship.
Making his first public appearance on Friday, Landis told a press conference that he has naturally high testosterone, and that he would undergo further testing to prove the high testosterone ratio is due to natural physiology. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2006/07/28/landis-says-his-high-testosterone-is-natural-more-results-due-monday/
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