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| View Larger Image | Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France
by Floyd Landis
by Loren Mooney
| | List Price: | $24.95 |  | | 6 New starting at: | $10.21 | | 10 Used starting at: | $5.95 | | | | | Sales Rank: | 485932 | | Studio: | Simon Spotlight Entertainment | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Number Of Pages: | 320 | | Publication Date: | June 17, 2007 | | Publisher: | Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 54 reviews)
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Alarmed 
Great stuff. Floyd is such a winner, looking forward to seeing him race again. It's an alarming shame the trial process is such a sham.
August 29, 2008 | |
Positively False
The book was an eye opener to the world of drug testing - good reading too
August 26, 2008 | |
Positively False
One of the best books I've read recently, it was very well written. I believe Floyd was falsely accused, in part because of things he said or did before or even during the race. I feel it was a way to get back or get even with him. Sad but true that sometimes happens. We know Dr. Arnie Baker and feel that if he backs Floyd, Floyd must be innocent. I will be passing this book along to friends so they might reach their own conclusion.
August 11, 2008 | |
A must read
This book is a great read, and clearly sets forth what you won't hear in the news. He did not fail the drug test, and the USADA should be ashamed of themselves -- I can't believe my tax dollars supported the USADA garbage.
August 04, 2008 | |
Let's Go Apeshit 
This is Floyd Landis, exhorting his legal defense team to let it all hang out on the Internet in what became known as the Wiki defense. Trash talking Mennonite listening to Metallica while plotting to destroy his opponents, Landis comes across as a conflicted and none too sympathetic character.
This isn't to say, however, that the book isn't a good read. For anybody who follows cycling it's a page turner regardless of how you feel about the author and his self righteous efforts to vindicate himself.
There are three main parts to the narrative - Landis' childhood and early mountain bike racing years, his career as a professional road racer culminating with the 2006 Tour de France win, and his battle with authorities in the aftermath of being accused of doping. These parts flow together and complement one another as a convincing portrait of the champion (?) emerges.
Along the way Landis provides a compelling explanation for his remarkable performance in Stage 17 of the 2006 Tour. It's about tactics, teamwork, training, and single minded focus on the readings of a PowerTap meter. Putting it all together it makes sense, and you find yourself thinking, "He just might have done it".
There are also interesting perspectives on teammate Lance Armstrong, the group dynamics of the peleton, and the pageantry and flawed grandeur of the Tour de France.
Cycling aficionados will want to read this book, in spite of its self serving PR perspective.
July 12, 2008 | |
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