Yup. Sounds reasonable to me. I'm guessing that he was tested several times before and during the Tour, yet the only positive was the one taken after that miraculous win. Natural causes? Come on...

The strange part is that testosterone is pretty useless stuff for a roadie to use, esp. during the race, cuz most of its effects come out a good couple of days later. My buddy who is in medical school says that it does get you all worked up and maybe less prone to feel pain and fatigue overnight, though... Which is just what Floyd needed. Plus he sure did look freakishly aggressive when he crossed the line. He had a decidedly angry face as he came in, and shoved away a reporter who wanted to ask him a question.


Of course, pretty much the whole field takes all sorts of stuff on the Tour AFAIK. It seems that FL did it in a lot dumber way than most of the others.


One news source says he could be the second overall winner ever to be disqualified after the race. Guess what the first one, Maurice Garin did during the very first TdF in 1903 that got him disco'd...













He covered part of the race distance on a train!