Floyd Landis vs. Lance Armstrong

The big story recently has been about Floyd Landis' comments about Lance Armstrong and other teammates using PED's, as well as his decision to admit he has used them as well.  Now someone who does not follow the sport of cycling could say 'who in the world is Floyd Landis and why is he talking about Lance Armstrong?'  Well in case you don't know, he is a former Tour de France winner, who had his 2006 title stripped because he was found to have used performance enhancing drugs.

The fact Landis has come out and admitted to his usage of the drugs now is a bit odd, since he has been refuting the claims since day one.  NOW he feels like he has to "clear his conscience?"  After a couple years?  It has been reported that one reason he may be doing this is because he lost all of the money he has earned and we all know if you have a big story about someone that is a popular figure, and as much as we don't want to admit it, Armstrong is, you can make a lot of money fast by exposing the story. 

Some of the claims Landis makes seem a little far-fetched, like how he had to essentially house-sit Armstrong's home to make sure the extra blood transfusions would be fine?  But it seems like it had more than just his tainted relationship with Armstrong.  He is pointing fingers at pretty much most of the influential people on the Tour, including his old team!  The team that, without them, he may not have won the race!  Some former employee huh?

"It's very sad," Armstrong said. "At one point or another, all of us implicated have cared about Floyd. We might have been on different teams or from different backgrounds in our lives, but at some point or another we shared the bond that we all gave Floyd a ladder. When he dug himself in a hole, we gave him a ladder to dig out of ... now people aren't throwing ladders at him anymore."

Now I usually don't agree with much of what Armstrong says and am not the biggest fan of his b/c of his prior words and actions (I mean who breaks up w/ Sheryl Crow?!), but I have to agree with him here.   This just shows how pathetic Landis is and how much he misses in the spotlight.  He sees other people succeeding at what he used to be one of the best in the world at and he doesn't like it.  One thing is for sure tho...

For someone to stoop this low, it just shows that as hard as it is to rise up to the top, it's just so much easier to fall down.