Full circle…even though my original point still holds
Well, well…
So Floyd WAS doping on the 2006 Tour de France. Or at least he’s been found guilty of it by an arbitration panel. (Here’s the story: Landis’s Positive Doping Test Upheld
I was so taken up by his gutsy surge in the mountains that I blogged him here the day the Tour ended. (And, the AP picked my entry up in a little “What’s on the Blogs” sidebar. How the heck did they find me so quickly? Never underestimate the power of Google.)
I’m a little embarrassed about one question I asked (just a little):
And all the fine young men who feel entitled to the yellow jersey because, well, they’re physically perfect, will again wonder what went wrong—why was their physical prowess insufficient to get them to the podium?
It’s clear that part of “what went wrong” was that Floyd had a little help from Mr. T. That may be the spring from which the gutsiness flowed.
Nevertheless…the larger point that the man was struggling with an arthritic hip, was several years older than many of the young studs in the field, and kept on going…still holds.
Floyd’s not my hero—far from it. Too bad he felt compelled to cheat. It shouldn’t keep the rest of us from trying, legally.
