I am Angry at Floyd Landis.
Why did he drag on the fiasco so long – before so publicly “coming clean” or rather “coming dirty” and with it trying to drag others down.
Nobody can ride the way he did. To ride away from the peloton, on the back of a bad day seemed implausible.
I wondered when he was first caught – why did he try to justify high testosterone so early? The answer is because he KNEW
He writes a book, and spends years protesting innonence before coming clean.
His protests over many years gave me just a chink of doubt about his conviction. Not enough to vindicate, just enough to hope that one day it might be proven …
So I am angry at Floyd Landis. To think he could take the world for fools.
There is something of Marco Pantani in him.
Listen to pantani’s reactions to dope allegations and he seems to believe he was singled out, as if to say, the whole world cheats so why have you picked me? For sure cycling was endemic at that time.
But I cannot forgive Landis for compounding injury and insult.
You sir, are the one we must use all efforts to catch. And ban completely – Zero Doping, Zero Tolerance.
