Floyd Landis

American cyclist

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Armstrong

  • Lance Armstrong
    In Lance Armstrong: Doping investigations and ban

    In April 2010 Floyd Landis sent an e-mail to a USA Cycling official, admitting that he and other former teammates, most notably Armstrong, were guilty of doping. The following month a U.S. federal grand jury investigation into doping allegations against Armstrong was initiated. That year Armstrong finished 23rd…

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LeMond

  • In Greg LeMond

    …of cyclists Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis, both of whom eventually admitted to doping. In 2007 he testified against Landis at his arbitration hearing, despite a warning from an anonymous phone caller—later determined to be Landis’s manager—who threatened to publicly disclose that LeMond had been sexually abused as a child.…

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Tour de France drug use

  • Miguel Indurain
    In Tour de France: Doping scandals

    …and the 2006 winner, American Floyd Landis, tested positive for testosterone and was stripped of his title after an arbitration panel in 2007 upheld the drug-test results. In 2007 several teams withdrew from the Tour after their riders failed drug tests. That year also saw Bjarne Riis of Denmark, the…

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