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What we have here is another probe for our concept of hero worship, and our capacity to ignore inconvenient possibilities.
Landis is an admitted liar and hoax besmirching a fairy tale. He was winner of the Tour de France for what, a half hour? Then the lab results came back.
Supplementary, his camp has tended to play dirty in his courtroom fights, or have we forgotten how his manager threatened to out Greg LeMond 's procreant abuse as a child as a legal ploy?
Get motivated by anything Floyd Landis says? Consider the source.
That's one way to look at it, anyway.
Of orbit, there is another way.
He might be a past world class sinner, but that doesn't mean he' s not telling the truth on this one. Could this be Jose Canseco on two wheels? The treacherous former slugger accused various baseball players of steroid use — for book sales, probably, more than civic burden. But nobody has gone into court on a libel suit, yet.
