Tour De France Bicycle Race

The statement wasn't as absurd as it sounded. A journalist here, looking over the crowd that had gathered, said to Lance Armstrong, "It looks as if Jesus Christ is going to cycle." "I've been called a lot of things in my life," Armstrong replied, "but not Jesus Christ. And I don't know that he rode, either.

Eric Zabel and Rolf Aldag, former teammates of two Tour de France winners, admitted Thursday they took performance-enhancing drugs while riding in the 1990s.

On the day after, Floyd Landis was fuming. "The deck was stacked," he said Friday from his home in Murietta. "It turned out that the best odds I had were zero.

Cyclist Floyd Landis said Wednesday that he has appealed the arbitration ruling that stripped him of his 2006 Tour de France title and suspended him from competing for two years on allegations that he took testosterone during the marquee race.

While T-Mobile and Adidas rethink their involvement in the scandal-plagued Tour de France, Computer Sciences Corp. is sticking with the race because the team it sponsors established a rigorous anti-doping program.

Two giants of American cycling collided in a Malibu courtroom setting Thursday, when former Tour de France champion Greg LeMond testified that reigning champion Floyd Landis implicitly confessed to using illicit testosterone last summer.