Velochimp: Astrochimp on Cycling

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Levi is rumored to be switching to Astana along with Johan Bruyneel and defending Tour champion Alberto Contador. Meanwhile he is living it up by eating “blue cheese crusted tenderloin of beef and chocolate mousse cake” in Utah.
Levi is asked about doping particularly the Landis case:
“Yep, that’s pretty much all [...]

Not a big surprise, but the ruling finally came down from USADA as Floyd Landis is guilty of doping. The court case wrapped up four months ago and is best remembered for the bizarre soap opera like revelations. Landis has one month to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The ruling came down [...]

In secret meetings held during the last week in Lausanne, Switzerland WADA, USADA, ASO and the UCI have decided to drop all charges against Floyd Landis clearing the way for him to join French team Francaise De Jeux. Dick Pound the head of WADA was quoted as saying
“Well, I was in my kitchen working to [...]

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Floyd Landis is not very optimistic about riding professionally again in 2007. The long process of trying to clear his name from the positive drug test in the Tour de France is making the possibility of getting on a Pro team this year look very bleak. Even if he is cleared of the [...]

Latest reports now indicate that Lance Armstrong is hacking into people’s computers too. First Floyd and now Lance have been accused of hacking into people’s computers. Cyclist sure are a geeky crew, but the uber tough guy pros don’t seem to have much spare time to hack away. Maybe L’Equipe still remembers War Games and [...]

The Floyd Landis case will not end cleanly. This week brings news of hackers breaking into the French labs’ computers and the lab itself admitting that there were errors in the numbering of the samples. The French lab clarifies that this error in no way affected the positive result, which is part of the Landis [...]

Floyd Landis is getting ready to post about 370 pages of documents and other info that will shed light on his defense in the positive testosterone case. Landis is taking an unprecendented move by showing how his lawyers intend to attack the case. The lawyers found that the testing process is full of errors with [...]

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Floyd Landis underwent hip surgery this week to finally rid himself of the excruciating pain he had to endure the past few years. The doctors said that they used a new procedure that will give Landis the maxim ability to comeback to become a top class cyclist. Landis’ recovery program will allow him [...]

The news has been everywhere and the writing was on the wall, but earlier this week Andy Rihs made it official, the Phonak Team is no more. The beleagured cycling team will close up shop at the end of the season after their marketing cache evaporated following several doping scandals. iShares did not want to [...]

Maxim magazine usually features a lovely model or celebrity as “Today’s Girl” The key is that the person is a female. For August 1th. the feature is Floyd Landis, or a urine sample riding a bike.
Here are the reasons he is featured:

The alleged crime: After Tour officials found Jose Canseco-esque amounts of testosterone in [...]