Floyd Landis’ Physical Status Following His Crash on Thursday, February 12, 2009
On Thursday afternoon, February 12, 2009, Floyd Landis crashed during a training ride. After evaluation by OUCH medical staff, his injuries were determined to be minor and limited to bruising. His surgically repaired hip is fine and he is looking forward to starting the Amgen Tour of California on Saturday in Sacramento.
Floyd Landis during the team's training camp in Temecula, CA
Photo: Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us
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Landis is innocent….I see his parents at all the local bike races, and have even ridden with Floyd the last time he was “home”…the guy was framed…French were pissed when Lance one, they thought he was out of the way and here comes another American beating them at their own game….go Floyd!!!
Floyd you are a hero! I think you got totally screwed the last two years. Give ‘em hell this year and good luck.
Go Floyd! Go Team Ouch!
Go great to see Floyd back!
Here is a great blog many of you may find interesting.
http://owstarr.com/2008/01/22/floyd-landis-and-the-magic-water-bottle-part-i/
Read all three parts. Hope the author is covering the ToC. No matter what what.. Floyd won!
Best of luck Team Ouch. Lookin good. Great effort today Cam!
Floyd-
ROCK ON! Since I first started following you in 2004, you have inspired me! I still believe in you. I remind myself often of one of your sayings, “I don’t care if your goddamn head fell off or your legs exploded…if you didn’t make it, you didn’t make it. One excuse is as good as the other.” I will run my first 50-miler in April, after a major elevator accident 5 years ago that nearly squashed my running dreams. I will not use my injury as an excuse. You helped me to believe that I could overcome. Thanks for never giving up on yourself or your fans. I’ll be cheering for you throughout 2009! RIDE HARD, RIDE FAST, RIDE STRONG!
Best always, Allyson
hey floyd -
thanks so much for signing the book and giving us a t-shirt on sat in sacramento. we are convinced you are innocent.
“We Support Floyd Landis”
Hey guys get a grip
If Floyd didn’t dope, he was subject to a conspiracy, by whom and for what gain, and then are you saying the arbitrators were all tainted?
He has now done his time let him get on with it clean.
we all know the dopers are one step ahead of the tests, just ask Lance.
The dopers, probably most of the elite riders, the clean riders certainly from 50th place down of the tdf riders.
why don’t they just allow the dope then the events can be renamed competition of the chemists
Remember Anquetil the “great” when asked if he ever doped said only when he had too, when was that he was asked, all the time he replied…….
let the sophisticated chemists get on with it, long live BALCO wasn’t that a californian company?
Get a grip?
How about you get a life Robbo.
Haters like you don’t belong here.
hey just because he says Floyd may be guilty doesnt mean he hates him, just simply stating another possibility. anyways, i do think he is guilty. just do the research
Robbo - Smarten up! I am not naive, but I believe that this culture of doping can be cleaned up. Its going to take time & require a bit of a paridigm shift. To sit back & say that all the top guys dope is a defeatists lame attitude.
BTW this is 2009 - so don’t bother quoting Anquetil. He is no role model for the current day.
Armstrong is a doper along with countless others - here we are in agreement, but lets start to support the clean guys!! Go Svein!
Go Floyd!!!
Floyd, we heard about your crash and feared the worst. . . so relieved that you’re fine. We can’t wait to follow your success this year. We’ll be looking for you at the last two stages of the Tour of California. Thank you for signing your book during your visit to UC Riverside. We support you 100%!
Glad you are alright Floyd,
but did you say ‘Ouch’???
Hey man, beat up on Armstrong. Even if he’s on drugs, you are still better than him. Cmon, show him what you got. Dude i’m a huge fan and i know that you were always clean, because no man would dope and then spend all his money trying to defend the case. Lets go, just shake it off and try again man!!!
GO FLOYD GO!
Go Floyd, welcome back to the world. Don’t know what else to say other than I am really looking forward to seeing you race!
Good luck Floyd and hammer down on your pedals. Looking forward to seeing you race again. Have a great race!!!
hey come on guys, floyd just tested positive cause he had a heineken before the TDF stage and that was what jacked his testosterone and epitestosterone ratios… if he stays on the whiskey he should be fine….
Dear Anthony,
I am a scientist who studies isotopes for a full time job. The isotopes supposedly showing Floyd doped, were artefacts within the instrument where they were measured. No question about that. Floyd’s legal team proved this without a shadow of a doubt, yet this evidence was ignored in the hearing. FLOYD IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN INNOCENT.
Armstrong has undergone more testing for doping that any human alive, and has never been accused. Get a grip dude.
Canucks making their marks? Please spare me, I lived in Canada for 4 years, the most mediocre bunch I have ever known,these Canooks. Please spare me.
Hi George.
You had NO ACCESS to the tests that were run on Floyd’s urine (A & B positive samples) so please keep your unjustified educational claims to yourself. Howard Jacobs is earning himself quite the reputation for defending guilty dopers & he did manage to blow enough smoke into the air to raise the level of general confusion out there over Floyd’s innocence. Keep in mind that Ulrich and Basso never had a positive dope tests either, when you make statements about Mr. Armstrong. You just need to use the EPO that WADA doesn’t have a test for. Or perhaps “accidently” have an enzyme on your fingers when you urinate in the sample bottle.
Sven will rock this year regardless what you think of Canadians.
Anyways this site is about Floyd. So - Go Floyd & blow Mr. dopestrong away!
Anthony checks your facts first.
ALL of Floyd’s documents were open to the public during his arbitration hearing.
They can all be found online at trustbutverify. Spends a few weeks them and it will change your mind if it can be.
Spend a few weeks reading them is what I trying to say…
Dude……allow me to step down to your excellent grammatical level. Your reply makes about as much sense as a box of hair. Re-testing samples that were never tested in an “approved” lab to begin with??!! Check your brain cells after you put your bong down….dude. The supposed “scientists” that performed the testing were not even competent enough to achieve similar results. The extremely low levels of synthetic testosterone came up at drastically different levels on EACH test. These results are not reliable and should have been questioned by the technician performing the test at the least! Not to be relied upon until documented by further tests. Get a grip. Try a Science 101 class dude!
I BELIEVE FLOYD!
A LOYAL Fan Forever
Hi Anthony,
Actually, I had direct access to all of the data directly from Arnie Baker. Given my scientific status, I also had consultations with the person that ASO hired to oversee the second test of Floyd’s sample. He was in the room, and since he had run the TDeF doping program through the Lance years, he was called in. I knew the C isotope values before they were released to the press, and, I will, in fact let my educated knowledge in on this when uneducated people like you blab what you have no idea what you are talking aboout. FLOYD IS INNOCENT. Go get a PhD in science and do the evaluation yourself or keep your derogatory statements to yourself.
Hey George,
With your scientific “Status”,too bad you were not around during Floyd’s initial consultations with Mr. Jacobs. Might give you a different perspective on what he was actually taking. Wasn’t just the Jack Daniels bra!
Regardless - I wish Floyd the best!
George, have you heard of Svein Tuft… how about Cam Evans.. floyds new team-mate… and what team won the UCI North America’s point series last year? … wait a minute it was a canadian team…
And I am sure you are right about floyd’s tests.. probably just dirty test equipment..
Also recall science 101, being a scientist you should also know that nothing can be proven, only disproven… keep your math to yourself bill nye.
how can someone who supports one of the most international sports in the world and has seen good riders come out of places like luxembourg where there is around 80 000 people, say that an entire people is mediocre. when you were studying all those isotopes did you ever get a chance to look at a map? you are just ignorant man.
Floyd is STILL the “Man”……heal the srcapes…..kick some ass!
Win, Floyd, win!
Enjoy the race!
Good Luck Floyd,
Those who know the truth are behind you.
Go Floyd! I’m behind you and hope you kick a$$.
Floyd, good luck and keep the wheels on the road!
Stay ON the bike friend!!
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Good luck, Floyd!!
Maybe he’d had a few beers and whiskeys the night before?
You call yourself “truth” and yet you know nothing. Why are you even here? Can’t stay away from controversy? Seeking attention for yourself? Trying to impress your girlfriend? Maybe trying to make up for your manly shortcomings? How about realizing the truth about yourself and getting off this site. I support Floyd 100%. He paid his dues and I hope he “layeth the smack down” during ATOC. Nuff said.
Hey Howard - lighten up a little. Floyd was guilty as sin & fortunately he had the 2 year suspension & wasted lots of his own money with his BS defence. He is not the only doper out there & as Mr Armstrong suckes even harder that Floyd, I hope Floyd can drop Lance like a stone or just take him out with another wipe-out! Nuff said! I support the clean hard working Canadians out there that will be making their markss in the peleton this year!!
Wow, who dumped in your Wheaties? I thought it was funny.
And, I hope Floyd lays the smack down, too. That stuff is pretty bad for the body, even if it would help ease the pain of road rash.
Call me sensitive, or whatever but I’ve met enough people in my life to know good people from scum. I met Floyd at the Ontario, CA airport on a trip back east. He was getting ready to sign with OUCH. He told me he was coming back and he looked to be in great shape.
Having had bloodwork/urine tests done personally, and being told one thing and then after retest, being told another, I don’t have much faith in some of the labs out there today.
Nobody here can say conculsively what Floyd did or didn’t do. All I know is, the man served a stupid suspension, and now he’s back. I’m happy for him. His riding will speak volumes one way or the other.
As I said before, I hope he “layeth the smack down”.
Rock on Floyd!
Go get ‘em, Floyd!