Floyd makes history
Yesterday Floyd Landis made Tour de France history, but I am sure not in the way he wanted to. Floyd Landis now has the dubious honor of being the only rider in the Tour's entire history to actually be stripped of the Yellow Jersey after the end of the race.
With the long awaited decision on his guilt from the Tour doping test finally made the UCI officially has stripped Landis' Tour title and handed it to former 2nd place Oscar Pereiro. While Landis could still appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, I don't see that as likely. Who knows, maybe with the 2006 Tour finally behind the sport, and following the scandal ridden 2007 season the sport will really begin to clean up it's act.
Pressure is already coming as sponsors either pull the plug or turn the screws in an effort to bring some credibility back to the sport. The UCI, ProTour, riders, and team managers have all been put on notice, perhaps they will begin to really make some changes.
While still a dubious honor, maybe, just maybe Floyd Landis will be seen as the catalyst for real change in the sport, or not. It is obvious that the testing procedures need to be completely overhauled (just read Genevieve Jeanson's recent comments) in order to catch the cheats and be able to quickly prosecute them. Still nobody seems to be talking much about specific changes to the testing protocols. But perhaps, when the flow of mney begins to dry up, the sport will llok at real change.
With the long awaited decision on his guilt from the Tour doping test finally made the UCI officially has stripped Landis' Tour title and handed it to former 2nd place Oscar Pereiro. While Landis could still appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, I don't see that as likely. Who knows, maybe with the 2006 Tour finally behind the sport, and following the scandal ridden 2007 season the sport will really begin to clean up it's act.
Pressure is already coming as sponsors either pull the plug or turn the screws in an effort to bring some credibility back to the sport. The UCI, ProTour, riders, and team managers have all been put on notice, perhaps they will begin to really make some changes.
While still a dubious honor, maybe, just maybe Floyd Landis will be seen as the catalyst for real change in the sport, or not. It is obvious that the testing procedures need to be completely overhauled (just read Genevieve Jeanson's recent comments) in order to catch the cheats and be able to quickly prosecute them. Still nobody seems to be talking much about specific changes to the testing protocols. But perhaps, when the flow of mney begins to dry up, the sport will llok at real change.
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