The Tour and cycling in general could do with out the recent headlines. If the rumours and subsequent A and B positive test results may cement Floyd Landis in the Tours history books for all the wrong reasons as he could be the first person the be stripped of his title due to doping. The now common place guilty until proven innocent routine earlier adopted by the T-Mobile team with Jan Ullrich and Ivan Basso just goes to show the lengths that will be taken to stop cheating in this already damaged sport.
There will of course be a thousand and one excuses and a similar amount of explanation's as to how this came about through natural effects or conspiracy theories as to how this abnormal ratio was detected. The simple fact is that rules are rules and if they are broken then there are consequences. Not so long ago Alain Baxter had his Olympic medal taken away for an infringement with a Vicks inhaler, legal over here in the UK but in the US it contains a banned substance. Try as he might to recover the ban it has effectively ended a promising career at the hands of an over zealous ruling and a genuine mistake. If the same happens to Landis then at least the rulings will be consistent
Lets just see what the B sample says. I bet you a tenner it's a fail as well.
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