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Article: Breaking Away; Early on, Floyd Landis Learned the Last Shall Be First. Then Came the Tour de France.
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- The Washington Post
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- July 2, 2006
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In the eyes of the Mennonites -- a community defined by its
uncompromising work ethic -- the servant shall be exalted in time.
Cyclist Floyd Landis, who has made a career out of servanthood,
believes that his time has come. In fact, the onetime Mennonite has
the date and place for his reward precisely fixed: the afternoon of
July 23, when he hopes to roll into Paris as the winner of the Tour
de France.
Landis's chances of achieving this goal soared Friday when more
than a dozen cyclists, including virtually all the race favorites --
Italy's Ivan Basso, Germany's Jan Ullrich and Spain's Francisco
Mancebo -- were tossed out of the competition after being
implicated in a doping scandal. ...