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Originally Posted by roadwarrior
I looked at cyclingnews. velonews, and bicirace dot coms...nothing...

But I found this. The US Federation is saying it's not an American rider. Floyd's got, obviously, a US Federation international license. The "generic" Velonews article says the rider's federation's been notified.

The last three paragraphs are pretty telling, however.

Yuck.

I hope it ain't so.
Yeah, that doesn't look good.

Man...I hope this isn't true. The Tour was tainted enough without this happening. When Jan, Basso, and everyone else got suspended I was mad and didn't feel like following the Tour. As time passed and the Tour got exciting I was sucked in to the action and forgot about all of the doping crap. It's not that I thought all the riders were clean, but maybe they were being a little more careful and not getting caught so that we didn't have to hear about doping all the time.

With the exciting finish to the TDF and all, I felt like racing was going to be the main focus again, not doping. But first we found out that Vino and his team were screwed and now this. I really hope it was some domestique instead of a big name. The Tour doesn't need another huge scandal.
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