Floyd Landis has admitted in a series of e-mails to cycling officials that for much of his professional career, he systemically took banned performance enhancing drugs.
He added the name of Lance Armstrong and other world-class cyclists and officials to his list of accused offenders. The disgraced former cycling champion has reportedly agreed to co-operate with the authorities in relation to his charges.
Landis told ESPN.com that he lacked any documentation to support his claims against other riders or officials and that it will be essentially their word against his.
Their word against his? If Floyd Landis testified in a courtroom, a jury would mock his testimony and challenge his illusory motives for coming forward now with the apparent truth. His credibility would be savaged and his condemning statements left in tatters.
Against that steep curve of rejection, should the hollow words of Floyd Landis be given any more weight because they are suddenly registered with cycling officials and publicly aired through the media?
The answer is resoundingly no.
For several years Landis has vehemently denounced reports of doping that led to him being stripped of his 2006 Tour de France cycling title. He has received donations from fans supporting his campaign to establish his innocence and wrote a book titled: "Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France." He is an admitted cheater and prolific deceiver whose unsubstantiated allegations about Armstrong and others should be shunted aside. It is the sorry word of a tainted whistle blower who should be positively ignored.
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