Landis Accused Of Cheating
Why am I not surprised. It seems that Floyd Landis, winner of the Tour De France, has been tested positive for high levels of testosterone. Gonna go out on a limb and say that the Tour officials, the same guys who have been out to get Lance Armstrong for years, had something to do with this story being released before all the info is in.
According to the reports, his A sample tested positive for high levels of Testosterone, a possible sign of doping. Phonak has suspend him until the test results for the B sample come back. If it comes back positive, he could be stripped of his Tour win.
The thing about the test though is the fact that it doesn't tell the whole story. More tests would be needed. Obviously they would have to test for performance enhancing drugs, and they would have to test samples taken before and after Stage 17 (the stage what the samples were taken from.) If they test negative, then he should be free to go, since there is no way performance enhancing drugs would be in the Stage 17 samples, but not 15 or 19 samples.
There are other reasons that the levels might be high. Some people just have naturally high levels, although this would have shown up in earlier tests.
Alcohol can increase levels (he had a beer and a shot of Jack the night before Stage 17,) but not enough to show up on most tests. Dehydration and intense effort can increase levels as well.
On Stage 16, the Bonk Monster got Landis. He would have gotten back to the hotel dehydrated, which could theoretically increase the effect of the alcohol. The next day, on Stage 17, he put in a very intense effort and may have been dehydrated. All of this combined could easily explain the higher levels.
In the end, we will just have to wait until the results for the B samples to come in before we find out the truth. Until then, I am going to consider him innocent until proven guilty.
Some other good articles about this story can be found at here on Cycling News and here on Velo News
According to the reports, his A sample tested positive for high levels of Testosterone, a possible sign of doping. Phonak has suspend him until the test results for the B sample come back. If it comes back positive, he could be stripped of his Tour win.
The thing about the test though is the fact that it doesn't tell the whole story. More tests would be needed. Obviously they would have to test for performance enhancing drugs, and they would have to test samples taken before and after Stage 17 (the stage what the samples were taken from.) If they test negative, then he should be free to go, since there is no way performance enhancing drugs would be in the Stage 17 samples, but not 15 or 19 samples.
There are other reasons that the levels might be high. Some people just have naturally high levels, although this would have shown up in earlier tests.
Alcohol can increase levels (he had a beer and a shot of Jack the night before Stage 17,) but not enough to show up on most tests. Dehydration and intense effort can increase levels as well.
On Stage 16, the Bonk Monster got Landis. He would have gotten back to the hotel dehydrated, which could theoretically increase the effect of the alcohol. The next day, on Stage 17, he put in a very intense effort and may have been dehydrated. All of this combined could easily explain the higher levels.
In the end, we will just have to wait until the results for the B samples to come in before we find out the truth. Until then, I am going to consider him innocent until proven guilty.
Some other good articles about this story can be found at here on Cycling News and here on Velo News
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