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I believed Landis' ride in stage 17 was the stuff of legend. The next day I saw an interview with Levi Leipheimer. A paraphrase of his statement was "I don't know how Floyd recovered. Certainly none of the rest of us had. It was .... incredible" I sensed then that the other riders were viewing the effort skeptically, to say the least.
I'm curious to learn more about the specifics of the test, though honestly a failure is a failure.
My initial response to Leipheimer's remark was that Landis would have to be crazy to cheat and go for the stage win. All stage winners are automatically tested. I guess he was confident that he'd slip under the radar...either that or maybe he was just abstained from sex the night before for the first time in months.
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