Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France
by: Floyd Landis
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THE SERIES OF EVENTS surrounding Floyd Landis's 2006 Tour de France was as improbable as anything in the history of sports: He showed up nine seconds late for the race's opening prologue, donned the leader's yellow jersey twelve days later, and lost his lead only to regain it in remarkable fashion just before the Tour's final stage into Paris. Winning the Tour should have been the culmination of a life's dream, but a mere three days later, Landis was accused of using banned performance-enhancing drugs. Released by his team and threatened with the removal of his Tour title, Landis went from winning the most prestigious race of his career to being unfairly labeled as a cheater, a liar, and a doper.
Positively False is at once a memoir and a powerful indictment of the unchecked governing bodies of cycling that have compromised theintegrity of the sport as a whole. From leaving the Mennonite community of his youth in order to pursue hispassion for cycling, to riding alongside Lance Armstrong for three years -- with whom he shared the same work ethic and competitive desire -- Floyd Landis details the highs and lows of his career with unabashed honesty. It is this samehonesty with which he will clear his name once and for all, as he lays bare the inner workings of the cycling world -- a place where athletes are subject to the antiquated science, flawed interpretive protocols, and draconian legal processes of the anti-doping agencies -- and finally lays to rest the scandal that threatened to destroy everything he's worked so hard to achieve....
THE SERIES OF EVENTS surrounding Floyd Landis's 2006 Tour de France was as improbable as anything in the history of sports: He showed up nine seconds late for the race's opening prologue, donned the leader's yellow jersey twelve days later, and lost his lead only to regain it in remarkable fashion just before the Tour's final stage into Paris. Winning the Tour should have been the culmination of a life's dream, but a mere three days later, Landis was accused of using banned performance-enhancing drugs. Released by his team and threatened with the removal of his Tour title, Landis went from winning the most prestigious race of his career to being unfairly labeled as a cheater, a liar, and a doper.
Positively False is at once a memoir and a powerful indictment of the unchecked governing bodies of cycling that have compromised theintegrity of the sport as a whole. From leaving the Mennonite community of his youth in order to pursue hispassion for cycling, to riding alongside Lance Armstrong for three years -- with whom he shared the same work ethic and competitive desire -- Floyd Landis details the highs and lows of his career with unabashed honesty. It is this samehonesty with which he will clear his name once and for all, as he lays bare the inner workings of the cycling world -- a place where athletes are subject to the antiquated science, flawed interpretive protocols, and draconian legal processes of the anti-doping agencies -- and finally lays to rest the scandal that threatened to destroy everything he's worked so hard to achieve....
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- A Three Part Act
It's now 2009, Floyd long ago lost his case, and his appeals, served his suspension and now rides for a domestic team name Ouch/Maxxis, where his results haven't been great, but his attitude seems positive, saying he doesn't want to talk about the past, and is just happy to be back racing. In the interim, numerous other doping violations have taken place in cycling, but let's look back at Floyd's book on it's own, in this light.
The book isn't written in three parts, but in a sense ... Read More
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- There is always a third option... and a fourth
The third option is that he got some form of a drug without knowing it, either from someone who didn't know how these tests worked or a competitor. It might be that Floyd Landis is not lying (he comes across in his book as attractively guileless and believable) and also that the test results showed something. That option was no doubt considered but not discussed in the book because these kind of procedures are a flat yes, he was doping or no, he wasn't.
The fourth option was that his ... Read More
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- Compelling
Floyd's story is compelling, taking you from his days of riding 400 mile weeks, day and or night, to his term in the professional ranks and being shunned by "team Lance" to go unto lead Phonak.He gives an insider's view into the handling of urine and blood samples that is quite suspect at best, making the reader truly question the objective results of these tests that can literally make and break careers.Because of his strong religious and moral upbringing, one truly begins to question whether ... Read More
Rating: - Fascinating
I came away feeling there's no way that Floyd Landis doped or cheated. The anti-doping organizations of the world are so desperate to clean up the sport and prove they're worth the funding being given them. Unfortunately, it appears that they and the labs they use are guilty of bad science and sloppy work. Floyd's talented, trained extremely hard, has a single minded determination and focus, and a phenomenal ability to suffer. The story of his upbringing in Farmersville, Pennsylvania and his road to ... Read More
Rating: - Alarmed
Great stuff.Floyd is such a winner, looking forward to seeing him race again.It's an alarming shame the trial process is such a sham.
- A Three Part ActIt's now 2009, Floyd long ago lost his case, and his appeals, served his suspension and now rides for a domestic team name Ouch/Maxxis, where his results haven't been great, but his attitude seems positive, saying he doesn't want to talk about the past, and is just happy to be back racing. In the interim, numerous other doping violations have taken place in cycling, but let's look back at Floyd's book on it's own, in this light.
The book isn't written in three parts, but in a sense ... Read More
- There is always a third option... and a fourthThe third option is that he got some form of a drug without knowing it, either from someone who didn't know how these tests worked or a competitor. It might be that Floyd Landis is not lying (he comes across in his book as attractively guileless and believable) and also that the test results showed something. That option was no doubt considered but not discussed in the book because these kind of procedures are a flat yes, he was doping or no, he wasn't.
The fourth option was that his ... Read More
- CompellingFloyd's story is compelling, taking you from his days of riding 400 mile weeks, day and or night, to his term in the professional ranks and being shunned by "team Lance" to go unto lead Phonak.He gives an insider's view into the handling of urine and blood samples that is quite suspect at best, making the reader truly question the objective results of these tests that can literally make and break careers.Because of his strong religious and moral upbringing, one truly begins to question whether ... Read More
- FascinatingI came away feeling there's no way that Floyd Landis doped or cheated. The anti-doping organizations of the world are so desperate to clean up the sport and prove they're worth the funding being given them. Unfortunately, it appears that they and the labs they use are guilty of bad science and sloppy work. Floyd's talented, trained extremely hard, has a single minded determination and focus, and a phenomenal ability to suffer. The story of his upbringing in Farmersville, Pennsylvania and his road to ... Read More
- AlarmedGreat stuff.Floyd is such a winner, looking forward to seeing him race again.It's an alarming shame the trial process is such a sham.
