currently disgraced 2006 tour de france winner floyd landis came to speak yesterday at amazon. he was as funny and disarming as he normally is in interviews. there was a raffle for copies of his new book, and i won one. he signed it.

i say that he’s currently disgraced because of a positive test for testosterone. his arbitration has been progressing slowly, as most doping cases do, so he’s not racing this year. when he tested positive last year, i was pretty bummed. i like cycling and really like floyd, but with all the riders who have been implicated in doping, it’s hard to get completely engaged in it anymore.

anyway, before yesterday i thought that floyd did it but now i think he didn’t. i’m both jaded and trusting and am incredibly easy to convince of things (which is something i don’t particularly like about myself, but changing it means becoming someone who is skeptical of everything and there is nothing more boring than dealing with people who don’t trust anyone. between being boring and being easily swayed, i’ll take flip-flopping).

when floyd signed my book yesterday, i wished him luck with his case. with any luck, he’ll be pissing all over france again next year.

photo by graham watson

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