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Article: Floyd Landis the talk of the town and the Tour de France.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2006
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Byline: Frank Fitzpatrick
EPHRATA, Pa. _ The Frenchwoman found her way last week to the Green Mountain Cyclery, a little bicycle shop here along Reading Road where a decade and a half ago 15-year-old Floyd Landis was introduced to the sport he now rules.
"I should kiss the ground he walked on," said the Brittany native, who signed her name Colette on the store's window.
"Better not," advised Jennifer Farrington, the owner's wife, "the floor's filthy."
That curious juxtaposition of the now-glamorous international sports star and the quaint but manure-scented corner of Lancaster County where he was born and raised was evident here on ...