MALIBU, Calif. - Though he's convinced his reputation is ruined, Floyd Landis still had to give it his best shot. He took to the witness stand at his arbitration hearing Saturday for his much-awaited testimony and found 50 different ways to say he didn't cheat.
"It's a matter of who I am," last year's Tour de France champion testified. "It wouldn't serve any purpose for me to cheat and win the Tour, because I wouldn't be proud of it. That wasn't the goal to begin with."
Wearing that familiar yellow tie, a gray suit and blue shirt, Landis spoke clearly and kept on point during a 75-minute dissection of his career, which was thrown wildly off track when he tested positive …
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