Floyd Landis is a coward
From time to time, Dan Wetzel pens outstanding columns for Yahoo! Sports. Unfortunately, because his employer uses an exclamation point in their name, no one takes him seriously as a sports journalist. Well, they should:
"Floyd Landis wants you to believe that he is a most upstanding man, a moral product of Mennonite upbringing, where honor and honesty mean more than the money and glory of winning the Tour de France.
"He wants you to peer into his soul and understand that he'd never cheat to win cycling's grandest race, as the drug tests and the US Anti-Doping Agency claim, because such an ignoble act would go against everything his pure heart believes.
"'It's a matter of who I am,' Landis testified Saturday according to the Associated Press at his ongoing arbitration in which he is fighting a two-year ban from the sport. "It wouldn't serve any purpose for me to cheat and win the Tour, because I wouldn't be proud of it.'
"Yes, what a man of high standards this ignorant clown is. What a proud, honorable champion this cut-throat coward is.
"We all found out last week who Landis is, and now this isn't about whether he doped but just what a dope, what a pathetic excuse for a human being he is."
It only gets better from there. Let me just say that it is rare for journalists to come out and call people - especially athletes - a clown, coward or pathetic excuse for a human being. Judging from how much I enjoyed this column, it is far too rare.
