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Article: Landis' long race
- Article from:
- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- February 9, 2007
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Tour de France champion Floyd Landis is a fast learner.
His initial steps following disclosure by the French anti-doping
agency that his testosterone to epitestosterone levels were illegally
high were clumsy and sounded contrived. He said the unusually high
testosterone levels were natural or that they might have been caused
by whiskey he drank the night before. And he insisted the French anti-
doping agency's tests were flawed. He sounded like someone groping
for alibis.
Six months later, Landis, a Lancaster County native, is taking
steps that offer him at least a small chance to clear his name.
Thursday, he agreed to skip all races in France this year as he
appeals ...