QdJ – Ik deed ’t niet omdat ik ’t nooit zou doen
“I put in more than 20,000 kilometers of training for the Tour. I won the Tour of California, Paris-Nice and the Tour de Georgia. I was tested eight times at the Tour (de France); four times before that stage and three times after, including three blood tests. Only one came back positive. Nobody in their right mind would take testosterone just once; it doesn’t work that way. (..) Based on the results I see a couple of possible explanations. Either the test doesn’t work at all, or something happened to the urine sample, I don’t know which … I’m not going to speculate.”
Tour”winnaar” Floyd Landis speculeert niet meer nadat het Whiskeyverhaal, de pijnstillersage en nog wat andere (door anderen/advocaten ingefluisterde) verklaringen voor zijn Tourwederopstanding naar het rijk der fabelen zijn verwezen. Althans hij weet nu zeker dat het ligt aan het corrupte bureaucratische bolwerk van de fietserij:
“It’s corruption. I don’t know if that’s a defense. We’re up against a big bureaucracy. I’ll stop defending myself when they stop prosecuting me in public. I don’t know exactly what the truth is. The problem here, though, from the beginning was the fact that the people doing the testing didn’t follow their own rules and their own protocols and made this public before I had a chance to figure out what was going on, and I was forced in the press to make comments before I could get educated on this. Had they followed their own protocols, this never would have happened in the first place.”