"B Positive or not B positive. That is the question": Judgement day for Landis
August 3rd 2006 10:12
Saturday is judgement day. It is the day when the world will find out whether Floyd Landis' "B sample" tests positive to elevated levels of testosterone.
If the results come back positive, Landis will be stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title, will be sacked from his riding team Phonak Hearing Systems and will be banned from the sport for two years.
Floyd Landis in the 2006 Tour de France (this picture is licensed under the GNU Agreement and can be found at wikipedia.org)
I'm still sitting on the fence on this issue. Initially, I dismissed him as just plain guilty. But, Landis has been in several interviews over the past week, protesting his innocence. He said that elite athletes always have elevated levels of testosterone (perhaps just male athletes anyway). He plans to fight the allegations and any action taken against him if his B sample is positive.
But, reports in the media which surfaced on August 1, suggested that synthetic testosterone was found in the sample. Media rumour or fact?
What do you guys think? Guilty or not guilty?
Until tomorrow
Melinda
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