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Monday, 18 December 2006 |
Disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis ponders retiring
 Disgraced Tour de France winning cyclist Floyd Landis has admitted that his sporting career may be about to end after his positive dope test in this year's Tour.
Floyd Landis faces at least a two-year ban after testing positive for the steroid testosterone having won stage 17.
Floyd Landis said: "There's a minute chance of me racing again in 2007. Even if I'm not suspended, who'll want to sign me?
"If they suspend me for two or four years, it's over. As things stand, I don't see myself as a bike racer."
Floyd Landis - whose father-in-law committed suicide shortly after the news of the doping test became public - told Belgium newspapers Het Laatste Nieuws and Het Gazet van Antwerpen: ""Even if I'm proved innocent, my reputation is ruined.
"This whole affair has ruined my life.
"My father-in-law committed suicide. There must be a link to what happened. He was my best friend and my biggest supporter."
Floyd Landis has said in his defence that his positive test was the result of inconsistencies by the French laboratory, which analysed the samples.
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