Floyd Landis Admits to Lying

Floyd Landis finally confirmed what many of us knew all along — he’s a cheater. The former Tour de France winner, who later had his title stripped due to testing positive for performance enhancing drugs, admitted to taking PEDs for the majority of his cycling career. After coming clean to his mother, he then came clean to ESPN.com.

Said Landis to ESPN.com: “I want to clear my conscience. I don’t want to be part of the problem any more.”

Landis admitted to taking a number of performance enhancing drugs including, testosterone, EPO, HGH, female hormones, insulin and he even had a number of blood transfusions. He claims to be in contact with cycling officials and anti-doping agencies — and is even said to be naming names.

The biggest splash Landis could make is claiming that Lance Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs. As of yet, there has been no confirmation that Landis has made such a claim.

It’ll be interesting to see how the cycling world reacts to Landis’ words. He’s no longer involved in the sport and there’s some thought that Landis could be “coming clean” simply as a ploy to keep his name in the headlines and eventually make money. While denying his usage of PEDs over the years, Landis has lost all his money and his marriage.

Are Landis’ claims legit? I think they are. That said, he is an admitted liar so nothing that comes out of his mouth can be trusted.

Floyd Landis lied and indeed took performance enhancing drugs (Image: Flickr)