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willem · « **Reply #30 on:** July 23, 2006, 01:13:39 pm »

Yeah... good for Floyd. Wouldn't care if he was from Tibet. I couldn't help but think this is guy who just likes to ride his bike - like a kid. (Remember when you were 12 and your bike was your "freedom machine?") That's Floyd.

Call me old fashioned, but I like him all the more 'cause he's not sleeping with the podium girls at every stop. Poor old Lance couldn't keep his chamois zipped up.

Carbon_Angus · « **Reply #31 on:** July 23, 2006, 02:29:13 pm »

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Call me old fashioned, but I like him all the more 'cause he's not sleeping with the podium girls at every stop. Poor old Lance couldn't keep his chamois zipped up.

where did that come from???
the podium girls are hot, though, you have to admit that.

willem · « **Reply #32 on:** July 24, 2006, 03:24:31 pm »

Floyd's a great role model - simple, consistent, dedicated to the sport and his family.

Lance actually boasted about being a great father and husband on the cover of his book! That goes beyond ironic. It's sick.

Yeah the podium chi's are way hot, but Lance showed us superhuman discipline. So I guess he just didn't care. ...maybe those girls are made of French kryptonite?

willem · « **Reply #33 on:** July 27, 2006, 04:39:19 am »

...and now... is FLOYD A DRUGGIE?
Hmm... can you take testosterone for one stage?

Whether he took it or not, he had to have a lot of it to do what he did.

Please Floyd, don't let me down!!!

orange · « **Reply #34 on:** July 27, 2006, 05:41:44 am »

One of our commentators over here said he would know that by winning the stage he would be tested so it would have been suicide to take the drug.

Also given he had won a couple of stages before (I think) he would have been tested then and was clean, so this commentator thought it must be because he was so fired up (you could see when he crossed the line) that he could have created his own high level of testosterone naturally during the ride...

jeffhop · « **Reply #35 on:** July 27, 2006, 08:11:26 am »

well i cant believe it, ive just been reading in cyclingweekly about the hero that saved the tour and now this!i really hope he can prove that he has naturally high testosterone levels otherwise its another nail in the coffin for pro cycling. just hope that lance was always clean as im a major fan!

Tel · « **Reply #36 on:** July 27, 2006, 08:46:11 am »

Hi chaps, dont it make you sick, these storys come out some true some not, but every time the real dopers and their quacks steal a little of our heros. Ive read on this subject that someone hopes Lance Armstrong is innocent, please dont let the low life in the world rob you of your hero believe and trust.
Its so difficult to watch any of the grand tours and not to keep thinking is he or is`nt he so the filth within our sport even manage to steal some of that too.
Dont listen to the excuse of they only do it because the stages are too long, get everyone off their bike make the race 100 meters and you end up with Ben Johnson.
Any how Mrs Tel wants some soap from this box I`m preaching from the top of so I`ve got to get down now.
Cheers. Tel

StoereVent · « **Reply #37 on:** July 27, 2006, 08:25:20 pm »

I can not imagine he would have been that stupid! At least I don't hope so. Let's wait untill we know the outcome of the second test before we judge Landis.
It's not a good sign that all the winners of the latest biggest tournements are suspended after the race finished. But it looks like a good sign that even the biggest names aren't spared. I hope the fight against unfair competition keeps on going!
And never forget: cycling is such a loved sport over the world (al least over here) that doping schandals can't bring it down.

Jeroen.

kiwi · « **Reply #38 on:** July 27, 2006, 11:31:51 pm »

sheesh it was always the podium girls for the young rider that i thought were hot...wonder why that is.
As others have mentioned surely you wouldnt risk it on the tour when you are one of the leaders.... surely!
I hope i am right,it will really cause an uproar otherwise

rapiddescent · « **Reply #39 on:** July 28, 2006, 03:41:48 am »

look closely and one of the podium girls had a beard. i tell you, the temptation of taking testorerone is too much...

I can't believe that he did this. It just brings the sport into more disrepute. The UCI can't keep control of these tour riders. I think they should just allow drugs and recumbrants on one of the legs for the hell of it. Would make it very exciting.

callum
lsd, err. rds.

Carbon_Angus · « **Reply #40 on:** July 31, 2006, 11:32:05 am »

Landis says he fully expects the second sample to be just like the first??? that would mean he'd be stripped of his TDF victory.

Somebody from CSI please help sort this out! lol

shovelon · « **Reply #41 on:** August 01, 2006, 03:26:11 am »

I read today that Landis won the TDF with a bad hip. I cant find any info on this. Is it true???

Terry
(Brings back memories of my teens, rode the Encino Velodrome in the 60's, rode the tour de Santa Monicas with my Pop. Even had the leather helmet that may still be hanging in my garage.)

Matno · « **Reply #42 on:** August 01, 2006, 11:05:54 am »

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I read today that Landis won the TDF with a bad hip. I cant find any info on this. Is it true???

Yep. He has avascular necrosis of the femoral head. In other words, following a crash a couple of years ago in which he broke his hip, the vascular supply to the ball of his hip joint (which is a true ball-and-socket type joint) was compromised. Eventually, the bone began to die, and now it is likely completely "dead" and slowly deteriorating. (Live bone is one of only two tissues in the body that actually regenerate like new). Floyd is planning on having his hip replaced with an artificial joint prosthesis sometime this fall.

I sure hope this doping thing turns out to be garbage. That particular lab has always been quick to make accusations and extremely unethical about leaking details prior to official findings. I guess they can't help it - they're French...

Dennis · « **Reply #43 on:** August 01, 2006, 12:09:22 pm »

HI guys, haven't posted in a while but have been reading.

I heard today that the NY Times ran a story that claimed that a urine sample from Landis showed that he had a certain level of synthetic testosterone in his system. If this is true, surely one of the final nails in the coffin.

Of course, the Times is ALWAYS right, right? yeah sure.
hope this is wrong too.

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kiwi · « **Reply #44 on:** August 01, 2006, 08:29:54 pm »

yes on the news today they were saying the same thing,ie synthetic testosterone...I still just cant beleive that Floyd would have done it...it doesnt make any sense,its not like its an instant boost,is it?

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