Floyd Landis outlines elaborate Doping system involving system

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Disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after testing positive for testosterone, has admitted to doping and has also accused his former teammates, including cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, of doping, according to two sources close to the situation.

One of the individuals, speaking on the condition of anonymity, showed the Daily News portions of a letter Landis wrote to cycling officials late last month, outlining an elaborate doping program underpinning the U.S. Postal Service professional cycling team between 2002 and 2005, years during which Landis rode in support of a victorious Armstrong.

Landis describes injections of banned drugs, the use of testosterone patches, and blood transfusions. Both sources, who each insisted on anonymity, said that Landis has met with U.S. Anti-Doping Agency officials as well as FDA special agent Jeff Novitzky, the investigator who uncovered the BALCO doping ring and other doping conspiracies that were ultimately prosecuted by U.S. Attorneys. USADA president Travis Tygart did not immediately reply to requests for comment.

In the letter, Landis implicates teammates, cycling officials, doctors and team leaders in what sounds like an astonishingly shameless culture of drug use. One example comes from 2004, when Landis said a team bus left the finish line, headed for the hotel, and stopped over on the way for blood transfusions to boost the riders' oxygen capacity.

"The driver pretended to have engine trouble and stopped on a remote mountain road for an hour or so so the entire team could have half a liter of blood added," Landis wrote. "This was the only time that I ever saw the entire team being transfused in plain view of all the other riders and bus driver."

Armstrong, who has always vigorously denied doping, is said by Landis to have participated in that and many other instances of doping. Attempts to reach Armstrong's attorney were unsuccessful.

"There are many many more details that I have in diaries and am in the process of writing into an intelligible story," Landis wrote in an e-mail addressed principally to USA Cycling chief executive Steven Johnson.

A representative of Landis, cycling coach Steve Owen, declined to comment or make Landis available for comment Wednesday night. Landis did not immediately reply to an e-mail. Ever since his 2006 positive test, he has denied doping. He wrote a book, "Positively False," disputing his positive test and solicited donations for a costly legal campaign to overturn his ban and clear his name.​
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I love when people admit their lies out of one corner of their mouth and at the same time throw someone else under the bus at the same time. It really does kill the "just wanting to be up front with people" that Landis was supposedly wanting to do with his "shocker" of an admittance.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
The denials were lies, but this sounds about right.
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IMO, its a typical diversion and attack, when Landis should be focusing on himself. Its spineless, imo


why do us regular people care about this crap?
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The rest of the world does, and since an American dominated a sport that the Europeans love, its gives the good ole USA a black eye
 
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Wouldn't watch cycling if it was the only thing on tv.
 
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Landis got caught doping, and now he's squealing on the rest of the team. Nothing surprising there.

He's on a team with a handful of riders, who train and ride together year around. What are the odds that one guy would be cheating without the others knowing? He wasn't even the fastest rider on that team or the rider trying to win the tour, Lance was.
 
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doozer said:
and both are probably right. in fact, Jose was right.
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So? He just ratted out people to make himself look marginally better. After that situation, some people looked at him like he was a hero, which was crap.
 
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tvolsfan said:
So? He just ratted out people to make himself look marginally better. After that situation, some people looked at him like he was a hero, which was crap.
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He ratted on people who were cheating like him. Criminals do this all the time. When they get caught, they bring everyone else down with them.
 
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he's a slimeball, but anyone who doesn't think armstrong was doping is living in a dream world. it was his ball cancer that turned him into the most dominant guy in history? riiiiiggghhhhtt
 
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droski said:
he's a slimeball, but anyone who doesn't think armstrong was doping is living in a dream world. it was his ball cancer that turned him into the most dominant guy in history? riiiiiggghhhhtt
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You may be right, but I'm not letting France have this one.
 
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droski said:
he's a slimeball, but anyone who doesn't think armstrong was doping is living in a dream world. it was his ball cancer that turned him into the most dominant guy in history? riiiiiggghhhhtt
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Exactly. What made Armstrong great, is he figured out how to do it.....and not get caught.
 
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I would bet everything I own that Lance Armstrong knowingly used PEDs, and did so for a while. Everything I own.
 
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kidbourbon said:
I would bet everything I own that Lance Armstrong knowingly used PEDs, and did so for a while. Everything I own.
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That may very well be true, I actually tend to feel that way too, but he is accurate when he claims that he's the most tested athlete on the planet and he's never failed a test. Apparently the team figured out how to beat the tests but only told Lance, it's hard to figure.
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Cycling is one boring sport. I think PEDs should not only be legal but also required.
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droski said:
he's a slimeball, but anyone who doesn't think armstrong was doping is living in a dream world. it was his ball cancer that turned him into the most dominant guy in history? riiiiiggghhhhtt
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Not disagreeing with you, but anyone who thinks no one in the Tour is doping is living in dream world
 
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An awful sport that has lost all credibility...a long time ago. Cycling is just a joke and has been for a while.
 
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