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Floyd Landis still plans to ride in the Tour of California after crashing his bike during a training run Thursday.
Floyd Landis is coming back to cycling, and says his sport will be better for it.
Lance Armstrong is set to race in the Leadville Trail 100 on Saturday, a grueling 100-mile race in the Rockies of 1,000 mountain bike riders that left Floyd Landis battered and bleeding last year.
Floyd Landis used the arbitration process as public theater to try to prove a point and regain his reputation. In the latest attempt that almost certainly will be his last, the anti-doping establishment slapped down the one-time 2006 Tour de France winner once more, ruling Landis didn't play fair, on the bike or in the hearing room.
Floyd Landis will find out Monday if he can reclaim his 2006 Tour de France title.
The final step in the Floyd Landis doping case will take place in New York, America's most expensive city, and once again, American taxpayers will foot part of the bill.
Floyd Landis will make his final appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in New York next week in an effort to regain the 2006 Tour de France title he lost because of a positive doping test.
American cyclist Floyd Landis cannot compete in France until 2009 even if he has his two-year doping ban lifted by the sport's highest court.
Oscar Pereiro finally got his hands on the winner's yellow jersey from the 2006 Tour de France on Monday. The Spaniard moved up from second to first after the disqualification of Floyd Landis for a doping violation.
Floyd Landis has one more chance to regain his 2006 Tour de France title. Like almost every other campaign he has waged in this long struggle, he'll be starting from behind.
Tour de France champion Floyd Landis renewed his attack Tuesday on the credibility of the French lab that conducted follow-up tests on his backup urine samples and reportedly found traces of synthetic testosterone.
Tour de France champion Floyd Landis got more bad news Monday — a report that follow-up tests on his backup urine samples found traces of synthetic testosterone.
Floyd Landis will skip the Tour de France — and all races in France this year — as part of an agreement with French doping authorities in a case that could strip him of cycling's most prestigious title.
Floyd Landis took his case to the public Thursday with an online presentation that included key elements of his defense against doping charges. Exhaustive as it appeared, his attorney said, "This is by no means everything."
Floyd Landis might be on to something. Lord help the sports world if he is.
The father-in-law of embattled Tour de France winner Floyd Landis was found dead in his car after committing suicide, coroner's officials said Wednesday.
Embattled Tour de France champion Floyd Landis said Monday the way his doping case has been handled so far makes him doubtful that he'll be able to clear his name.
The Tour de France no longer calls him champion. His cycling team cut him loose. About the only chance Floyd Landis has of keeping his prized yellow jersey will now likely be decided by an appeals process that could drag on for months.
Floyd Landis was fired by his team and the Tour de France no longer considered him its champion after his second doping sample tested positive Saturday for higher-than-allowed levels of testosterone.
Tests show that some of the testosterone in Floyd Landis' system at the Tour de France was synthetic and not naturally produced by his body as he claimed, according to a newspaper report.
His voice steady and his tone defiant, Floyd Landis vowed he would clear his name of allegations he cheated to win the Tour de France.
American cyclist Floyd Landis denied that he cheated to win the Tour de France, but said Thursday that his career will forever be stained by his positive test for high testosterone during the sport's premiere event.
Tour de France winner Floyd Landis failed to show up for a one-day race in Denmark on Thursday, a day after missing a scheduled event in the Netherlands.
The craziest Tour de France in memory ended Sunday the same way the last seven had: with an American wearing the yellow jersey, this time with a Landis instead of a Lance.
Written off as hopeless just a day earlier, Floyd Landis needed a once-in-a-lifetime ride Thursday to revive his sagging chances of victory in the Tour de France.
Cycling Union Takes Leap in Fight Against DopingAfter a wave of doping scandals, the International Cycling Union has agreed to let a laboratory create biological records of its top riders in yet another effort to catch cheats.
Landis's Positive Doping Test UpheldFloyd Landis lost his lengthy, costly and very public doping case Thursday when an arbitration panel upheld the initial charges that the 2006 Tour de France champion used performance-enhancing drugs to win the race.
Landis's Positive Doping Test UpheldFloyd Landis, the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, must forfeit his title and is subject to a two-year ban.
The Outcast: Floyd LandisIn the wake of the most scandal-ridden Tour de France ever, Floyd Landis remains where he has been all along: in limbo waiting for redemption, which may never come.
Are sports heading toward 'major crash' because of cheating?Cheating in sports is nothing new -- the day humans first discovered athletic competition, we began seeking an easier way to win. It's human nature.
Cycling: As mistakes go, the German rider's was a big oneExcerpt: "PARIS: Why did Patrik Sinkewitz, the German rider who has admitted that he used an illegal testosterone gel before the Tour de France, do it?
25 Most Infamous Drug Related Scandals in Sports History (a graphical look)From Ben Johnson (roids) to Barry Bonds (roids) to Floyd Landis (doping) to Bill Romanowski (stimulants) - sports have been plagued with drug related scandals. SI does a nice picture gallery of their top 25.
Before I met my husband, I'd never heard of the Tour de France. Now it's a tradition every summer to tune in to the hottest cycling event in the world. Not yet a fan? Here are my Top 10 Reasons for you to give it a shot. Remember this list is from a non-die hard cyclist.
Without Key Riders, Tour de France Is Left Wide OpenFor the second straight year, no rider is expected to dominate the Tour, in part because many of the cyclists who would have been expected to compete for the victory are not here.
Americans Seek to Escape Shadows of Those Who Came Before ThemTo be an American cyclist in the Tour de France is to toil in the shadows of two prominent and controversial American riders: Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis
Landis' book claims USADA targeted him Excerpt: "In his newly published book, Tour de France champion Floyd Landis claims the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency spent so much money in an obsessed mission to nail him for drug violations, it passed on prosecuting other cases.
Landis Uses New Book to Address ChargesIn the book, Floyd Landis, last year's Tour de France winner, appears to contradict some of the testimony he gave at an arbitration hearing on charges of doping last month.
Few look good in Floyd Landis sagaExcerpt: "Is Floyd Landis guilty or innocent? After a couple million words of testimony in California a few weeks back, you'd think the picture would be clearer, but it isn't.
Spoof: Floyd Landis pleads innocent, offers up stool sample as proofExcerpt: "LOS ANGELES - After a surprise weekend ruling against Floyd Landis on charges that he cheated during last year's Tour de Franz, the professional cyclist appealed to the next higher court yesterday.
The Landis HearingI have been reserving judgment until both sides presented their entire cases, and yesterday the arguments concluded. I will admit being skeptical of the initial doping results, because a few things just haven't added up since the results first became public.
Greg LeMond's History of Sexual Abuse Brings New Drama to Floyd Landis Doping Hearing Floyd Landis' sleepy, scientific arbitration hearing morphed into a pulp-fiction blockbuster Thursday, replete with revelations of sexual abuse, allegations of threatening phone calls and even a Donald Trump-style firing.
The Landis hearing: Day 1 - A lawyer's viewEditor's Note: Denver-based attorney Antonio Gallegos is in Malibu, California, this week to observe the Floyd Landis arbitration hearing. Gallegos works for the firm of Holland and Hart, concentrating in commercial litigation and government investigation.
Floyd Landis: USADA breaks own rules to get to ArmstrongFloyd Landis claims the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's lead attorney approached his lawyer offering "the shortest suspension they'd ever given an athlete" if Landis provided information that implicated Lance Armstrong for doping.
Landis: USADA went after him to get ArmstrongFloyd Landis claims the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's lead attorney approached his lawyer offering "the shortest suspension they'd ever given an athlete" if Landis provided information that implicated Lance Armstrong for doping.
Has justice been served, or usurped? Follow-up tests positive on Landis samples PARIS (AP) -- Follow-up tests on backup urine samples by Tour de France champion Floyd Landis found traces of synthetic testosterone, the French sports newspaper L'Equipe reported Monday. ...
U.S. Open Cycling Championships - Williamsburg to Richmond, VA On April 7th the peloton will be racing from Williamsburg to Richmond, VA in the inaugural U.S. Open Championships road cycling race.
Anti-doping case against Landis may be in jeopardy The French laboratory that produced incriminating doping results against Tour de France champion Floyd Landis may have allowed improper access to the American cyclist's urine samples, lab documents show — one of a number of errors that could jeopardize the case against Landis.
Clean or flawed - Floyd Landis takes the anti-doping agencies to taskLandis, in a middle of a chaotic tug-of-war between French and US doping agencies following his 2006 Tour de France victory, questions the effect of a flawed drugs test on athletes.
Is the tide turning for Floyd Landis? - SportingoUnder pressure to bring his anti-doping case to a conclusion so he can race in 2007, the delays may work in the Tour de France winner's favour.
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