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The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
June 2007
On Sale: June 17, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 1416950230
EAN: 9781416950233
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
The series of events surrounding Floyd Landis's 2006 Tour de
France was as improbable as anything in the history of
sports: He showed up nine seconds late for the race's
opening prologue, donned the leader's yellow jersey
twelve days later, and lost his lead only to regain it in
remarkable fashion just before the Tour's final stage
into Paris. Winning the Tour should have been the
culmination of a life's dream, but a mere three days
later, Landis was accused of using banned
performance-enhancing drugs. Released by his team and
threatened with the removal of his Tour title, Landis
went from winning the most prestigious race of his career to
being unfairly labeled as a cheater, a liar, and a
doper. Positively False is at once a memoir and
a powerful indictment of the unchecked governing bodies
of cycling that have compromised the integrity of the
sport as a whole. From leaving the Mennonite community of
his youth in order to pursue his passion for cycling, to
riding alongside Lance Armstrong for three years -- with
whom he shared the same work ethic and competitive desire
-- Floyd Landis details the highs and lows of his career
with unabashed honesty. It is this same honesty with which
he will clear his name once and for all, as he lays bare
the inner workings of the cycling world -- a place where
athletes are subject to the antiquated science, flawed
interpretive protocols, and draconian legal processes of
the anti-doping agencies -- and finally lays to rest the
scandal that threatened to destroy everything he's worked
so hard to achieve....
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