Potholes and Road Apples

The international Court of Arbitration for Sport today upheld Lancaster County native Floyd Landis’ suspension on charges that he doped to win the 2006 Tour de France.
Landis, of Farmersville, is the first winner to be stripped of his title in the 105-year-history of the race.
The ruling ends a two-year legal saga that began three days […]

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The ruling on whether Lancaster County native Floyd Landis can reclaim his 2006 Tour de France title is expected to be handled down from the Court of Arbitration for Sport early Monday, the Associated Press reported this afternoon.
Landis was stripped of his title last year after a U.S. arbitration panel ruled there was evidence Landis […]

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Lancaster County native Floyd Landis has committed to a series of endurance mountain bike races this year while his doping appeal is being decided.
 
Landis accepted an invitation to compete in the 2008 National Ultra-Endurance Mountain Bike Series. The eight, 100-mile races will be held at different locations across the country. The closest will be the […]

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Farmersville native Floyd Landis this week filed his promised appeal to the Switzerland-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Landis is appealing the ruling of an arbitration panel that found in late September that Landis had used artificial testosterone during stage 17 of the 2006 Tour de France. Landis subsequently won the three week race. After the […]

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The panel of arbitrators who heard Lancaster County-native Floyd Landis’ doping case have concluded that he took testosterone to enhance his performance in the 2006 Tour de France.
The Associated Press reported getting an advance copy of the U.S. Anti-doping agency finding. The news broke just before 2 p.m. today.
Landis, of Farmersville, may still appeal the decision to the international Court of Arbitration […]

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In a letter published in this morning’s Intelligencer Journal, Dan Garrett contends Floyd Landis had nothing to do with what has become known as The Call.
Garrett was in Malibu, Calif. last month for the doping hearing of Landis, a Lancaster County native, and winner of last summer’s Tour de France. Garrett was Landis’ former economics teacher at Conestoga Valley High […]

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Brownstown race registrations; City mobility planning; Streetcars on hold; New bridges to be wider; Floyd at Teva Games
*Again, as if we needed more proof of the emerging popularity of bicycling racing in Lancaster County, two categories for beginner racers in the upcoming Brownstown Road Race were filled almost immediately Monday evening.
Two of the three races for Category 5 […]

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With the USADA hearing behind him, Floyd Landis is going to the next thing: the book.
Landis, a Lancaster County native, will be returning on June 29, to sign copies of his new book, Positively False,  http://www.amazon.com/Positively-False-Real-Story-France/dp/1416950230, at the Barnes & Noble store, in Red Rose Commons, Fruitville Pike. The event begins at 7 p.m.
The visit will […]

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The director of the Tour de France preempted the start of local bicyclist Floyd Landis’ hearing on Monday by announcing the result didn’t matter.
Christian Prudhomme told the German Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung that Landis would be stripped from the official Tour de France record books. The news was reported Saturday in the Austrialian newspaper The Age, http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/six-riders-out-as-drug-scandal-sours-giro-ditalia/2007/05/12/1178899168734.html
Prudhomme’s announcement came three […]

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Tomorrow morning, friends, family members and supporters of Floyd Landis will gather for the Keep the Faith Ride, at 10 a.m., at the Petra Christian Fellowship church, on Airport Road, south of New Holland.
Landis, a Farmersville native,will not be at the 20-mile ride. He will be in his adopted home in California preparing for his […]

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