Drama at Landis Doping Hearing

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"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.

It came courtesy of Landis' fellow American Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, who disclosed he had been sexually abused as a child and received a call Wednesday from Landis' manager who threatened to reveal the secret if LeMond showed up to testify.

Shortly after LeMond dropped those bombshells, the manager, Will Geoghegan, walked up to LeMond, apologized and admitted he made the call, LeMond said. Which led to "You're fired" — the message Landis attorney Maurice Suh gave to Geoghegan while they were still standing in the hearing room."

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1622888,00.html

Just what cycling needed. Our very own Tonya Harding.

[Gregorian]

1. What a shame.

There is almost a blur in the line of what makes a professional athlete. From the rooms where the riders have intravenous flows after the stage, to the amended intake of electolytes. It's almost like what is illegal is a trivial difference.

I haven't kept up with the Landis scandal. But I imagine he had testosterone in the water he was dousing himself with, if he indeed doped.

It's a shame all around. The doubt we have in future races. The unfair advantage.

I'm beginning to have an automatic answer for every post on the forum these days. There is a reason behind the need to dope. I'm just so sorry the world has come to this. It's not just athletes. It's Republicans. It's cheating.

Things are too fast. Too big. Too competitive. I want 1965 back.

[wtmusic]

2. 1965, or our youth?

I wonder if things are any more competitive now, or I was just too naive to believe there was cheating in 1965.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Cheating? in 1965?

There was "strategy". It might be looked at as cheating if you were the "strategee". But not if you were the "strategor".

There's probably more drugs now. It probably comes with the potential for more money. Prize money, endorsements. I don't think there was as much in 1965.