cycling doping scandal season starts early
is it summer already?
landis is a sleazy enough character that his bombshell accusations directed at the likes of armstrong, hincapie & zabriskie should be taken with a grain of salt. not that all those guys are necessarily and categorically blameless — i’m finding it increasingly difficult to believe that anybody who makes his living in professional sports can do so without brushing up against some such unpleasantness — but the real story here is the brass fucking balls on floyd landis, who apparently just decided to admit what everybody already knew about his own $90k/year habit.
Landis had insisted he was innocent and wrote a book in 200 titled, “Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France.” His fans donated money for his defense. As recently as a few months ago, he was on “Larry King Live” to discuss his case and emphasize his innocence.
i don’t know which is more odious — the godawful tiresome hypocrisy of an industry that all but requires its employees to shoot estrogen into their eyeballs and then feigns shock and outrage when the dirty laundry inevitably gets aired, or the neverending barf parade of self-flagellating pro athletes blubbering their mea culpas into cameras — but it looks like we’re in for another round of both. i didn’t think it was possible to be more disgusted than i was with the tiger woods festival of judgment and public self-recrimination, but i think landis has pulled it off. tiger at least had the decency not to go launching his own scandalrama on purpose, whereas landis is by all indications just trying to whip up one more go-round of cheap publicity and fling a little more poop at his former colleagues in the process. pathetic.
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