Positively False

THE SERIES OF EVENTS surrounding Floyd Landis's 2006 Tour de France was as improbable as anything in the history of sports: He showed up nine seconds late for the race's opening prologue, donned the leader's yellow jersey twelve days later, and lost his lead only to regain it in remarkable fashion just before the Tour's final stage into Paris. Winning the Tour should have been the culmination of a life's dream, but a mere three days later, Landis was accused of using banned performance-enhancing drugs. Released by his team and threatened with the removal of his Tour title, Landis went from winning the most prestigious race of his career to being unfairly labeled as a cheater, a liar, and a doper. Positively False is at once a memoir and a powerful indictment of the unchecked governing bodies of cycling that have compromised the integrity of the sport as a whole. From leaving the Mennonite community of his youth in order to pursue his passion for cycling, to riding alongside Lance Armstrong for three years -- with whom he shared the same work ethic and competitive desire -- Floyd Landis details the highs and lows of his career with unabashed honesty. It is this same honesty with which he will clear his name once and for all, as he lays bare the inner workings of the cycling world -- a place where athletes are subject to the antiquated science, flawed interpretive protocols, and draconian legal processes of the anti-doping agencies -- and finally lays to rest the scandal that threatened to destroy everything he's worked so hard to achieve....

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Title of ebook: Positively False
ISBN: 9781416954750
parent-ISBN: 9781416950233
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Pages: 256
Published: 06-2007
Released online for download: 06-26-2007
Author of eBook: Landis, Floyd
Author: Mooney, Loren
Author: Rucker, Embry

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Positively False

The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France

CHAPTER 1

Breaking Away

I have nothing to hide.

As far as I'm concerned, people can know everything about me if they want:

how much money I've made, when I've been a fool or felt regret or shed

tears. I don't care. There's no reason to hold anything back. I don't feel

the need to be selective in order to create some image of a person who

isn't me. I'm me. That's it.

I ended up making a living in a sport where a bunch of men wear spandex

and shave their legs -- and that's not even the funny part. The funny part

is that cycling and its anti-doping program are run by people so

incompetent they couldn't even run a Ralphs grocery store. I couldn't

always laugh about it, because they wrecked my life. But I don't ask for

sympathy. I take what I'm given in life and try to make some good out of

it, always.

In the end, cycling is a beautiful sport, and it deserves better. It

rewards focus, strength, and endurance, and also requires negotiation,

tea ... read full excerpt from: Positively False ebook

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