Poor Floyd!

Let's talk about FACT. TESTOSTERONE IS NOT MAGIC. It is not like Popeye with his spinach, where you slap a testosterone patch on your scrotum and immediately you're Captain America. If you want positive benefits from doping with testosterone, you have to do it for WEEKS. If he had been doing it for weeks, his other blood would be in question too. And it's not. Everyone's assuming he had a crap day on Stage 16, he went to the old can of testosterone, his muscles all went DING! and off he zoomed to victory. Untrue. One time use can make a positive test, but it does not affect performance.

Our local paper, this morning, has an eight inch headline that says "TOUR DE FRAUD?" and right in the middle, between DE and FRAUD, is a picture of Floyd Landis, holding his hands up in victory. Great.

1. Do they think they're so incredibly clever as to come up with this unimaginative pun? Do they not know that every other columnist, newspaper, blog, and housecat is saying the exact same soooo clever pun?

2. Can't they use one of the Floyd-in-pain pictures like everyone else, instead of picturing him there looking all smug and triumphant and like a big smug cheater?

3. I understand that they need to cover it, because naturally, everyone's wondering and thinking and curious about it. But this is the most coverage the tour has gotten yet, even on the day FLOYD WON. Even on the day all those other guys got axed for being *suspected* dopers. This is what puts cycling on the cover of the sports page.

4. I like Stephen Colbert's response to it. OF COURSE he's got massive quantities of testosterone. He's an AMERICAN. Get used to it! Hehehe.

5. Floyd is innocent. He said this: "All I'm asking for is that I be given a chance to prove I'm innocent. Cycling has a traditional way of trying people in the court of public opinion before they get a chance to do anything else." The court of public opinion is being led and misled by these damned hysterical headlines and images.

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