According to German ARD television on Friday, the testosterone level of Tour de France winner Floyd Landis was high over the legal co-efficient when he tested positive for the steroid at the French race.How does ARD know (when Floyd himself feigned not knowing)?
Citing sources around Landis (hey -- who's talking?), ARD said that the Landis' testosterone/epitestosterone co-efficient was 11-1. The legal limit, in case you're wondering, is 4-1.
According to ARD, that means that the doping test proves the testosterone was provided to Landis externally.
Landis said on Friday that he had done nothing wrong. 'My physiological parameters for testosterone and epitestosterone are naturally high. Therefore, I would like to make it absolutely clear that this is not in any way a doping process. I declare convincingly and categorically that my winning of the Tour de France has been completely and exclusively due to my years of training and devotion to cycling," he said.
Landis tested positive on the A sample after his spectacular Stage 17 victory in Morzine on July 20, when he launched an epic solo attack to take back eight minutes from his main competitors after cracking in a mountain stage a day earlier. We await the B sample.
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