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Article: In cycling's elite; CV graduate Floyd Landis, a teammate of Lance Armstrong, may make his debut in the Tour de France next month.
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- Sunday News Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- June 23, 2002
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Floyd Landis has been a professional bicycle racer for four years,
but his sport is relatively obscure in America, at least when Lance
Armstrong isn't riding.
Landis' career has been successful to this point, but almost a
covert activity. That may change today.
Today is when Landis, 26 and a graduate of Conestoga Valley High
School, is expected to find out if he will compete in cycling's Super
Bowl, the Tour de France, to be held over 21 days (and covering over
2,000 miles) next month.
"We're thrilled about what he's doing," said Mike Farrington,
owner of the Green Mountain Cyclery shop in Ephrata where Landis got
his start in racing. "Here's a guy we dragged through the dirt with
us. What ...