Posts Tagged ‘Floyd Landis’
Last Call
Floyd Landis’ appeal to the Court of Arbitration on Sport (CAS) literally fell on deaf ears. The court summarily dismissed his case by a 3-0 ruling. From the Huffington Post: In its 58-page decision, the panel at sports’ highest court said the French lab that analyzed Landis’ positive test results followed international standards, disagreeing with [...]
Rock ‘n Roll into 2008!
There’s an intriguing story on VeloNews by Neal Rogers about the growing relationship of Rock Racing team owner Michael Ball and Bad Boy Floyd Landis.According to the story, Rock Racing (a new team I’m not terribly aware of) director sportif Frankie Andreu resigned over “differences in philosophy,” Ball is talking with Landis about an unspecified [...]
The French Return from Vacation
Just in case you were wondering whether Bad Boy Floyd really is screwed, the short-time winner of the 2006 Tour de France was banned from all competitions in France by the country’s anti-doping agency AFLD today. Why today?Maybe the French have been on vacation (see the following item). You may vaguely remember that Landis was [...]
Bad Boy Floyd Must Know the Feeling
We certainly know there are many ways to lose the Tour de France.But how many ways are there to kill yourself over being tossed out of the race? Let Michael Rasmussen, the disgraced leader whose Rabobank team finally gave him the boot for lying about his whereabouts before the 2007 Tour when he should have [...]
The Appeal
Last Thursday, Floyd Landis and his advisers filed for a state of execution of his cycling career to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS). Make no mistake about it, this appeal is more than an attempt to re-claim the yellow jersey that was officially handed over to Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d’Epargne) earlier this week, [...]
Baffled
The news of the Floyd Landis decision began to filter out sometime Wednesday night, but I didn’t hear about it until Thursday evening. My initial reaction, baffled. Although the results for the recent Crankset poll are in line with the actual verdict, I’m still quite baffled. In response to T-o-03′s post, I actually did expect [...]
It’s Officially Bad Boy Floyd Now
There should be plenty of commentary today on Floyd Landis’s doping conviction, which has now officially stripped him of the 2006 Tour de France title. Writes the Canadian Press: “The long and winding road that Floyd Landis pedaled out of Mennonite country and onto the wide boulevard of the Champs-ElysDees hit a dead end Thursday, [...]
Did You Really Expect Otherwise?
Julie Macur of the New York Times reports:”Floyd Landis lost his lengthy, costly and very public doping case Thursday when an arbitration panel upheld the initial charges that the 2006 Tour de France champion used performance-enhancing drugs to win the race.” ALSO:– AP: Landis loses doping case and 2006 Tour de France title Much more [...]
Could This Be It?
Finally …Arbitrators in the Floyd Landis doping hearing met for the final time this week and declared the hearing officially closed. That means a decision on the 2006 Tour de France winner’s fate must come in by Sept. 22. Bad Boy Floyd testified in May as part of a two-week public arbitration hearing to determine [...]
The Once (and Future?) Champion
OK, one last thought on this day of infamy in the Tour de Farce and I’m going to bed: What do you think this guy is thinking? AND:– Carol Herwig of USA Today: Landis, Walsh peddle thoughts on ups, downs of cycling
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