are you telling me that i can’t even trust a mennonite now?
apparently floyd landis, the tour de france winner, has flunked a drug test administered after stage 17.
i saw his mother interviewed on tv. she was a charming mennonite woman, full of stories about his childhood in pennsylvania dutch country, and was so proud of him.
i hope for her sake this is a false positive test. she deserves better than having barry freaking bonds for a son.
update: the ap story was updated to include a quote from his mother:
Arlene Landis, his mother, said Thursday that she wouldn’t blame her son if he was taking medication to treat the pain in his injured hip, but “if it’s something worse than that, then he doesn’t deserve to win.” “I didn’t talk to him since that hit the fan, but I’m keeping things even keel until I know what the facts are,” she said in a phone interview from her home in Farmersville, Pa. “I know that this is a temptation to every rider but I’m not going to jump to conclusions … It disappoints me.”
now there’s a classy woman.
hey, floyd. call your mother. she deserves a call.
update #2: he called his mom. from the updated article:
Efforts to reach Landis were not immediately successful. But Arlene Landis said her son called Thursday from Europe and told her he had not done anything wrong.”He said, ‘There’s no way,'” she said in an interview with The Associated Press at her home in Farmersville, Pa. “I really believe him. I don’t think he did anything wrong.”
from what i’ve read, this may be a tempest in a teapot, caused by his approved use of cortisone for his degenerating hip.
i sure hope so.
