Human bodies under stress from an injury, physical stress and emotional stress can throw various testosterone ratios completely out of balance. Now then let's discuss the issues with Floyd Landis in the Tour de France. Floyd had been in the Yellow Jersey days the prior and then was way back in 11 th place and this caused severe emotional stress. Floyd Landis was riding in pain and with a degenerative hip an injury, which could easily throw his body out of wack especially considering he denied the pain and kept riding even harder. Next consider that to go from eleventh place and back into the Yellow Jersey took extra ordinary strength of character and physical torture again throwing Testosterone into non-typical ratios. These three events occurring in a rider of that level; the best bicycle rider in the World during that time, anything can happen. Additionally, lets talk about Politics in cycling and the French in general. We know that they tried to attack Lance Armstrong and make up claims that he was doping. Did Floyd Landis really cheat? Was Floyd Landis really involved in doping? Does Floyd Landis need to dope up to win? Well, I think not. Consider all this in 2006. |
