Race Promoter’s Opinion On Landis Doing Leadville 100

cycling, Floyd Landis, Leadville 100, mountain biking | UltraRob | Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

I’ve been wondering whether Floyd Landis will be able to race the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike race if he doesn’t win his fight against the doping charge from last year’s Tour de France. Yesterday Ed posted on the Yahoo LT100Bike Group about his conversation with Ken, the Leadville 100 race organizer, when he dropped off his entry form. A portion of it is below and you can read the rest of the post here although I think you have to sign in.

I asked if he was concerned that NORBA wouldn’t allow Landis to compete. Wrong question. I mean, really wrong question. I found out that Ken “doesn’t give a flyin’ f**k what NORBA thinks, it’s his d**n race and if Landis wants to ride, he’s in.” (I guess the lottery thing isn’t 100% for everybody huh?)

Then, and I quote, “And one more thing. If NORBA’s supposed to be connected with USA cycling, then why the hell wasn’t the people in charge of USA cycling standing by a USA cyclist who was being framed by the f****n’ French? Bunch of pissant p**sies.”

That was just for starters. Before long he really got going.

“What a bunch of crazy bulls**t—are they all out of their minds?
Sayin’ that testosterone could make you win a d**n race. Hell, if that s**t worked, I’d have won ever d**n race I ever entered. I take a bath in that crap ever’ single mornin’!” (That I don’t doubt!)

I should have guessed that would be his attitude. After doing the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike race 4 times, the Silver Rush 3 times, crewing for the MTB race, and volunteering for the 100 mile run and the 10k, I’ve had a several interactions with him and don’t find it hard to believe he’d say that.

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