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Article: Landis' backup test also turns up positive; Tour de France victory likely to be stripped
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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- August 6, 2006
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PARIS (AP) - The Tour de France no longer calls him champion. His
cycling team cut him loose.
About the only chance Floyd Landis has of keeping his prized
yellow jersey will now likely be decided by an appeals process that
could drag on for months.
Landis was discredited and disowned in short order Saturday when
elevated levels of testosterone showed up in his "B" or second doping
sample - as it did in the initial "A" sample released last week.
The samples also contained synthetic testosterone, indicating that
it came from an outside source.
If stripped of the title, Landis would become the first winner in
the 103-year history of cycling's premier race to lose his Tour crown
over doping ...