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Article: The shaming of a cycling superhero Test results mean Floyd Landis will be first Tour de France winner stripped of his title
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2006
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The American cyclist Floyd Landis is to be stripped of his Tour de
France title after a test yesterday confirmed he had excess levels of
the hormone testosterone in his body when he won the race.
The 30-year-old cyclist won last month with a heroic performance
in the last and most gruelling mountain stage of the race, but now
faces the humiliation of being banned from the sport for two years.
Landis, who has protested his innocence ever since the first
doping test found excessive levels of testosterone, was summarily
sacked by his Swiss racing team, Phonak, yesterday after the "B"
sample also proved positive.
He will be the first winner of the Tour de France to be stripped
of the title.
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