Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

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Floyd Landis made the appearance that every celebrity or politician makes when they are in the middle of a scandal. They go on Larry King whose softball questions help to calm frenzied media situations down. No situation needed more of a cool down period (other than all that craziness in the Middle East) [...]

A cancelled stint on The Tonight Show does not mean that Floyd Landis is not putting a full court press in the media. Coming out more defiant and confident than the day before Floyd Landis has been trying to counter the negative media by trying to give his side of the story to anyone that [...]

Austin Murphy of Sports Illustrated got a call back from Floyd Landis. Murphy is probably the first reporter that Landis has spoken with since the news broke today of the positive drug test. In the interview Murphy asks Floyd the obvious question and gets an obvious answer.
I asked him straight up: “Did you do it, [...]

Floyd Landis’ higher than normal testoterone positive drug test could be defended. There are several factors which lead to this positive test. The first is the fact that WADA recently lowered the threshold of testosterone:

The World Anti-Doping Agency has lowered the limit for the maximum T/E level from 6:1 to 4:1. Some athletes have naturally [...]

Specualtion turned to fact and Phonak has anounced that Floyd Landis was the positive drug test of the Tour. The Tour winner tested positive for unusually high amounts of testosterone/epitestosterone. So far, this is only the A sample, another test needs to be run for the B sample to confirm the positive.
The Swiss-based Phonak said [...]

I always thought that Kid Rock and Floyd Landis had at least a passing resemblance. Now sites are popping up everywhere noting this resemblance.

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The on again off again Lance Armstrong Movie seems to have a new leading man. Old rumors were that Matt Damon would be the man to play Lance, but now it seems that Jake Gyllenhall is set to be the actor that portrays Armstrong. Armstrong and Gyllenhaal were seen together in Paris and both follow [...]

“I’m the best guy here. Today, I’m going ape shit. Today, I’m going to win.”

The attack was amazing and Bicycling Magazine has the stats that Floyd Landis’ PowerTap recorded. Floyd could afford to have a PowerTap on his bike since his BMC comes in far below the UCI’s 16lb weight limit, so the extra [...]

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Floyd Landis secured the Tour de France win with a very good Time Trial performance that vaulted him over Oscar Periero. Landis looked to smoke the course early onas he beat the first split time set by Serhiy Honchar, but as the TT progressed Landis’ times slowed down a bit to where he [...]

Italian cycling took a blow when Ivan Basso was not allowed to start the Tour de France. Since then it has been numerous second places by Lampre riders such as Commesso, Bennati, Ballan and Cunego. The traditionally strong country could not get a win. Matteo Tossato today finally got the win for Italy ahead of [...]