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The cycling world has become used to bad news dropping occasionally like thunderbolts from the sky, and on the whole, the professional peloton has been remarkably resilient in its ability to pick itself up and ride on. However, revelations disseminating from American news sources this morning about a confession from Floyd Landis, who won the 2006 Tour de France and was then stripped for illegal drug use, are if true about as condemning and discrediting as anything the sport has known.

That is if you believe them, of course. For Landis is himself totally discredited, he fought and lost an extremely costly legal battle to clear his name and he would not be the first cheat within professional sport to be pushed to the brink and decide:...

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