Cycling: Did it drive Floyd Landis to self-destruct?

August 06, 2006

Training “takes so much time and energy – that’s why I did it in the first place. If you ride hard enough and long enough, you forget about everything else.” 

In retrospect, this pre-race quote from 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis should have served as a warning to us that he might be particularly vulnerable to the temptation to cheat.  As one reporter thoughtfully observed, for Landis, “biking became so all-consuming: It filled in for God, for his family, for the security he’d given up.” 

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