Lance Armstrong-Floyd Landis Feud Continues
Written by playerpress.com, Friday May 21 2010
Floyd Landis has accused seven-time Tour de France champion of doping, teaching other riders to cheat and paying off a top cycling official after allegedly testing positive in 2002.
Armstrong has denied those allegations and released numerous emails in trying to prove that Landis, who tested positive for PED’s in 2006 has "zero credibility."
"Even a superficial review reveals a troubling, angry and misplaced effort at retribution by Landis for his perceived slights," Armstrong said in a statement posted on his website.
"While these types of repeated, tired and baseless accusations against Lance have been proven false in the past, it is quite regrettable, but telling, that so many in cycling are now attacked."
His longtime sponsor, Dr. Brent Kay, a cycling enthusiast and one of Landis' most ardent supporters, financially and otherwise, firmly believes that Landis was not guilty of doping when he won the Tour de France in 2006.
While reaffirming to Landis that he would support him no matter what, Kay asked him to call a truce with Armstrong and he even suggested that he ride on his team.
"If either side does not like this idea just throw this in the trash and be done with it, have the press conference and get it over with. But, once again, I'm asking you to do this for me and my family so we can move on with our lives and leave all the anger, hatred and bitterness behind," Kay wrote April 28 in an e-mail to Landis that he also forwarded to Armstrong on May 3.
Kay pleaded with Landis to avoid a public fight with Armstrong but he ignored the desperate pleas from his sponsor and went public with his e-mails, not only targeting Armstrong but also Tour of California officials as well, for not inviting his team to participate in the race.
"I certainly understand that my revealing that Lance Armstrong has relied on blood doping, EPO, and anabolics to win the three Tours de France in which I helped him, will jeopardize your substantial investment in facilitating his appearance so from a business point of view I understand fully," Landis wrote to the race director.
In his e-mail response, the race director said the accusation did not dignify a response.
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