Floyd Landis made it to the top of the cycling world with a little help from HGH, female fertility hormones, synthetic testosterone and erythropoietin. Throw in some blood transfusions for good measure. USA Today reports that the world knew about this after Landis lost his 2006 Tour de France triumph, but Landis is just getting around to his admission of guilt. Landis told the New York Times that his PED days began when he joined the U.S. Postal cycling team in 2002. Then the disgraced cyclist made a point of accusing former U.S. Postal cycling team leader and champion of the sport, Lance Armstrong, of doping during his run of seven Tour de France victories.

Source for this article: Cyclist Floyd Landis admits he did drugs, accuses Lance Armstrong

Floyd Landis claims he simply had to clear the air

The rather glib Mr. Floyd Landis sent off a series of revealing e-mails to cycling officials. He told ESPN that he doesn’t want to “be part of the problem anymore,” which apparently means he’d rather fling the dirt than hold onto it any longer. Landis said it was all a way for him to compete in cycling, and that he feels no guilt. It was either that or try to live off unsecured personal loans, in his estimation. Yet Lance Armstrong was able to compete on the highest level and pass his drug tests. That factoid didn’t seem to resonate with Floyd Landis.

Lance Armstrong has yet to Twitter this disturbing episode

This despite numerous damning comments in Floyd Landis’s e-mails, writes the Wall Street Journal. Johan Bruyneel, a U.S. Postal team manager, is supposedly the guy who introduced Landis to various methods of steroid ingestion, blood doping and growth hormone usage, says Landis. An ongoing federal investigation has kept the other names Landis references in his tell-all e-mails out of the public eye. It is clear that Floyd Landis names current U.S. road racing national champ George Hincapie, three-time Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer and five-time champ of U.S. time trials, David Zabriskie. Floyd Landis has no hard documentation to corroborate his claims, though.

Is cycling a dirty sport? Do you find Floyd Landis’s claims credible?

Citations

USA Today

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2010/05/floyd-landis-admits-doping-accuses-lance-armstrong/1?loc=interstitialskip

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