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On 5 Aug 2006 14:27:32 GMT 'Sean'
posted this onto uk.politics.misc:
>From: [email protected] (Hawk)
>Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport.f1
>Subject: It's Official: Floyd Landis Is A Cheat
>
>The New York Times
>
>August 5, 2006
>Backup Sample on Landis Is Positive
>By JULIET MACUR
>
>Nearly two weeks after Floyd Landis's improbable ride to victory in the Tour
>de France, he learned that his title might not be his to keep.
>
>The International Cycling Union announced early Saturday morning that Landis
>had officially failed a drug test from the race. In response, his Swiss-based
>Phonak team fired him. Landis also may become the first Tour champion in the
>race's 103-year history to be stripped of his title because of doping
>allegations.
>
>Landis's test result was released at about 4:45 a.m. Eastern time, after the
>French national antidoping lab finished testing a second urine sample Landis
>provided after his dramatic performance on Stage 17 of the Tour. Testing on
>the first sample found synthetic testosterone in Landis's urine, as well as a
>ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone nearly three times the limit allowed
>by World Anti-Doping Agency rules.
Little surprise here. Landis is obviously a cheat and a liar.
He should hand back the trophy gracefully but coming from a nutty
religious American family, probably thinks that he's entitled to it.
--
"It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities;
it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen,
however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity
and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and
superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every
pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of
all well-disposed, industrious and decent men."
-- Henry L. Mencken, 1926.
posted this onto uk.politics.misc:
>From: [email protected] (Hawk)
>Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport.f1
>Subject: It's Official: Floyd Landis Is A Cheat
>
>The New York Times
>
>August 5, 2006
>Backup Sample on Landis Is Positive
>By JULIET MACUR
>
>Nearly two weeks after Floyd Landis's improbable ride to victory in the Tour
>de France, he learned that his title might not be his to keep.
>
>The International Cycling Union announced early Saturday morning that Landis
>had officially failed a drug test from the race. In response, his Swiss-based
>Phonak team fired him. Landis also may become the first Tour champion in the
>race's 103-year history to be stripped of his title because of doping
>allegations.
>
>Landis's test result was released at about 4:45 a.m. Eastern time, after the
>French national antidoping lab finished testing a second urine sample Landis
>provided after his dramatic performance on Stage 17 of the Tour. Testing on
>the first sample found synthetic testosterone in Landis's urine, as well as a
>ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone nearly three times the limit allowed
>by World Anti-Doping Agency rules.
Little surprise here. Landis is obviously a cheat and a liar.
He should hand back the trophy gracefully but coming from a nutty
religious American family, probably thinks that he's entitled to it.
--
"It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities;
it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen,
however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity
and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and
superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every
pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of
all well-disposed, industrious and decent men."
-- Henry L. Mencken, 1926.