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2006 October: Floyd Landis: Alpha-Male
“So I tested positive for testosterone? Hell, You’re damn well right I did! Check out how I like to relax between stages in major Tours. Can there be anything more macho than chopping down trees? I’m a big American Football fan and when you’ve got male hormones dripping out of every pore like me you’ve got to just hand me the ball haven’t you? Every true man worth his salt likes to spend a bit of time with a rod in his hand and I don’t even like hunting nor agree with it but being the tough-guy means I can’t help going out into the woods and filling the environment with lead. So its easy to see why my testosterone levels are way off the scale and all the banter with my red-blooded chums accounts for that synthetic testosterone. So what’s the goddamn problem? I’m the toughest in the worlds toughest race and if anyone wants to call me a doper maybe they’d like to step outside with me and we’ll settle this mano-a-mano”