Landis ready to race after crash
- By Steve Frothingham
- Published Feb. 14, 2009
- Updated Aug. 4, 2010 at 4:42 PM EDT
Floyd Landis’ 2009 Amgen Tour of California got off to a bumpy start before it even started. Out on a training ride with his OUCH teammates two days before the race, Landis went down on a slick patch of road.
Dressed for the cold, wet weather, Landis wasn’t seriously hurt. His manager Scott Thomson said Landis finished the training ride.
“He’s fine. He’s super fit,” Thomson said, adding that the crash was just an ill-timed annoyance.
Floyd Landis won the 2006 Tour of California before going on to win Paris-Nice and then the Tour de France. At the Tour, he tested positive for testosterone and was retroactively stripped of his title and then suspended for two years. The 2009 Tour of California is his first major pro race back.
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