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Give Back that Yellow Jersey!

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Hey kids, real winners do use drugs!

Floyd Landis has been stripped of his 2006 Tour de France win due to doping:

A three-person arbitration panel ruled 2-1 yesterday that the Murrieta cyclist indeed committed a doping violation by having synthetic testosterone in his body when he dramatically won Stage 17 of the 2006 Tour de France. He becomes the first champion in the race's 105-year history to be stripped of the title for doping, and he has been banned from all sanctioned competition until Jan. 29, 2009….

Spain's Oscar Pereiro now becomes the Tour de France champion 14 months after he rode into Paris in second place behind Landis.

More, including questions about the reliability of the lab at the center of the testing, here.

Past Landisania at reason here.