Floyd Landis - Understanding Cycling Team Strategies

Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1297

2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis attempts to explain the various strategies employed among cycling teams during a race.

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Floyd Landis talks about "Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France."

Landis, the American cyclist whose hard-earned 2006 Tour de France victory was stripped due to doping allegations, provides strong evidence to clear his name. He talks about the fascinating ups and downs of his life and his career. -- Book Passage

Floyd Landis is an American cyclist. He is a time-trial specialist as well as a climber. Landis turned professional in 1999 with the Mercury Cycling Team. He joined the US Postal Service team in 2002, and moved to the Phonak Hearing Systems team in 2005.

Landis is still officially the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, the third American to do so (after Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong), though he is not considered by Tour officials to be the champion and his status as champion may be subject to change.

Landis failed a drug test which indicated a ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone of 11 to 1 (the legal limit is 4 to 1) and the presence of synthetic testosterone during one stage of the race and he is expected to have to forfeit his title.

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[89Czeko]

This dude is a massive asshole, and a cheater.

[r13p13]

Doper's...This Joke and the 7 time Tour winner

The FAKE one...

[dahgutone]

DOPER.

The guy was found guilty for performance enhancing drugs, denied using it, and now confronts that he DID use it to target Lance?

What a JOKE!

[jckjd72]

If chad had stayed on the team, they could've added crack to their doping repertoire!

[suazonator]

@Technopunkster lol

[Technopunkster]

@suazonator oh please dont hurt my little feelings

[suazonator]

@Technopunkster your just a pussy not willing to cheat

[Technopunkster]

what he said at 1:05 about teams not having a person capable of winning the race, is why i gave up on the dam sport. out of 200 riders you have maybe 3 prospects to win and 3-4 contenders if that. boring as hell. The whole tour is basicly summed up in a handfull of stages. that being the time trials and mountain stages. the rest are rides in the country while you bullshit with tour buddies, those stages arent even races.

[Chris2550525]

I think Floyd forgot to mention the 3 main strategies. Cheat, cheat, and cheat some more. Then when you can't handle being a liar, come clean and rat out your peers.

[colin340]

sorry for think you were a doper !!