Topic: Sports
We were so proud of American Floyd Landis for stepping out of Lance Armstrong's shadow and winning the Tour de France, repeating America's win streak for eight years. But Landis's team, Phonak, announced today that Floyd failed a doping test and that he had high amounts of testosterone in his "A" sample, which could either be a result of treatment for his hip injury, another established ailment or the use of steroids or banned substances.
Landis has been suspended as the anti-doping committee tests his "B" sample. If this one to also fail, Phonak announced that Landis will be fired and his Tour de France win will be revoked. But Floyd's mother is positive this will never happen.
Arlene Landis said it could take two weeks for the results of the backup test to be made public.
“Of course he wasn’t happy about it, but they’re spoiling everything he’s supposed to be doing right now,” she said. “Why couldn’t they take care of this before they pronounced him the winner? Lance (Armstrong) went through this too. Somebody doesn’t want him to win.”
“Why do they put you through two weeks of misery and spoil your crown? My opinion is when he comes on top of this everyone will think so much more of him. So that’s what valleys are for, right?”
Now it's just a waiting game to see if we can go back to being proud or need to buy a bigger pillow to hide our heads under.
