Floyd Landis

Floyd Landis is a runner American cyclist . He is the fellow-member of Lance Armstrong until in 2004 and changes team the following year. In 2006, it gains the Tour de France but quickly sees its victory called into question after one had detected an abnormally high rate of Testostérone following his victory with Morzine.

Biography

Mennonism with the VTT

Floyd Landis was born in 1974 in a community mennonite from Pennsylvania. His/her parents, originating in the Swiss Canton of Glaris in , are enthusiasts mennonites and have a strict lifestyle, which does not facilitate the practice of cycling by the Floyd young person. This one is involved the night, or while going to fishing with his/her brother. At the time of its first competitions, it is interdict to run as a cyclist and constrained to carry a jogging. It obtains nevertheless good performances, and becomes national champion junior of VTT in 1993. It then leaves its community for the California in order to be involved with full-time, before passing to cycling on road in 1999.

First professional years

It begins its professional career in 1999 at Mercury-Viatel. During this first year, it obtains its first victory at the time of a stage of the Classic Cascade and takes part in the Tour of the Future, which it finishes in third position. It is not long in showing that he is a good wheeler, by gaining the prolog of the Tour of Langkawi in 2000 then, the following year, while being placed over the podium of the against-the-watch of the Critérium International. It also gains the Tour of the Poitou-Charentes.

It then signs at US Postal in 2002 and becomes during three seasons a fellow-member of Lance Armstrong, before joining Phonak in 2005.

Business of doping

The July 27th 2006, a taking away carried out after the 17 {{E}} stage appears positive with the Testostérone (rate 11 times higher than the normal, allowed limit being 4 times).

During a press conference given to Madrid (its town of residence) the July 28th 2006, the racing cyclist is defended in the presence of his lawyer Jose Maria Buxeda: he declares that it is not doped and that it will subject to all the tests imposed by the international Union cyclist. Moreover, he repeats that he underwent six other tests, all negative, during the Tour de France and affirms that its “testosterone rates were always exceptionally high, and that has nothing to do with doping”. It changes then defense, and calls upon problems of Thyroïde and a well sprinkled evening the test day before to explain the results of the analyzes. Such an explanation would be plausible for a woman because the testosterone is produced by the suprarenals at the woman.

The July 31st 2006, a source of the NewYork Times reveals that the testosterone found in the urine of Floyd Landis would be of origin synthetic.

The August 5th 2006, the analysis of the sample B confirming the result of that of the sample has, Landis is threatened to lose its title of winner of the Tour de France as well as that of winner of the 17 {{E}} stage. Its team cyclist Phonak announced to have proceeded to its dismissal the very same day of the knowledge of the results of the counter-evaluation. Floyd Landis risks two years of suspension in addition. It took to defend same lawyer as his former team-member Roberto Heras, Jose Maria Buxeda. It creates a bottom, the Floyd Fairness Fund , to fight against the osteo osteoarthritis, which will enable him to collect more than 500.000 $ (necessary ref.) (in May 2007).

The August 15th 2006, Andy Rihs, the owner of the team cyclist Phonak announces that its team, to which Floyd Landis belonged, was going to be purely and simply dissolved. Already overpowered by businesses of doping concerning of other runners, that which implied Landis was that of too for the same formation.

In April 2007, a new examination of the 6 samples B shows the synthetic presence of Testostérone. In May 2007, the director of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme declares that Floyd Landis is definitively and officially unobtrusive various lists of the former winners of the Turn.

Floyd Landis engaged Howard Jacobs, a lawyer specialized in the defense of marked athletes of doping. It also engaged Maurice Suh, a specialist in the businesses of governmental fraud.

The May 18th 2007, at the time of the lawsuit, the former racing cyclist Greg LeMond, called like witness, states to have received pressures on behalf of Will Goeghegan, then associated with Landis, not to come to testify. The lawyer of Landis immediately announced the end of association between the runner and Will Goeghegan, fascinating effect immediately.

The September 20th 2007, the independent Court of arbitration American (AAA) rejected the arguments of Landis and withdrew to him its title of winner of the Turn 2006.

Prize list

1999

a stage of the Cascade Classic
3rd of the Turn of the Future

2000

Turn of the Poitou-Charentes

2002

2nd of the Critérium of Dauphine released

2004

5th stage of the Turn of Algarve
final Classification of the Turn of Algarve

2005

3rd stage of the Turn of Georgia (CLM)

2006

final Classification of Paris-Nice
4th stage of the Turn of California (CLM)
final Classification of the Turn of California
3rd stage of the Turn of Georgia (CLM)
final Classification of the Turn of Georgia

Results on the large lathes

Tour de France

2002 : 61e of general classification
2003: 77e of general classification
2004: 23e of general classification
2005: 9th of general classification
2006: n.c

The July 8th, it finishes 2nd 7 {{E}} stage (against-the-watch). The July 13rd, it is 3rd 11 {{E}} stage and seizes the yellow jersey which it loses the July 15th, the July 18th recovers (it is 4th 15 {{E}} stage) and loses again (victim of a failure) the July 19th in Toussuire, to go down in the eleventh place from general classification. It reacts the following day, July 20th by gaining the 17 {{E}} stage at the end of an incredible solitary ride towards Morzine, which enables him to go back to the third place of general classification at 30 seconds of the Yellow jersey. Then, excel wheeler, it finishes third of the against-the-watch of the July 22nd and thus recovers the yellow jersey which it preserves to Paris. A few days later, he is declared positive with control antidopage carried out with Morzine. After more than one year of legal battle, he becomes the first winner of the Tour de France to being displaced for doping.

Turn of Spain

2003 : 76e of general classification
2004: abandonment (18th stage), carrying the shirt gold during 5 days
2005: abandonment (6th stage)

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