Floyd Landis

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Floyd Landis (born October 14, 1975) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. After beginning his professional road career with the Mercury Cycling Team in 1999, he rode for the U.S. Postal Service team from 2002 to 2004, serving as a domestique for Lance Armstrong, and then joined Phonak Hearing Systems. His major results included overall victories in the Tour de Georgia, Tour of California, and Paris–Nice. He initially finished first in the 2006 Tour de France, but was disqualified following a positive doping test, and Óscar Pereiro was declared the official winner. Landis denied doping and contested the case, but in 2007 an arbitration panel found that he had committed a doping violation and imposed a two-year suspension. The Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld the ruling in 2008. He returned to competition in 2009 but was unable to secure a team after the 2010 season and retired in January 2011. In May 2010, after years of denying that he had doped, Landis admitted...

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