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Floyd Landis is an American hero. Landis won the 2006 Tour de France amid controversy surrounding the incompetence of the French Anti-Doping Laboratory (LNDD) and the handling of his test. Landis won the race in classic American fashion with a bold, come from behind, risk it all attack in the mountains of stage 17. His victory is considered by many to be the greatest athletic comeback of all time.

Landis was raised in the Mennonite community of Pennsylvania and spent countless hours as a child riding his bike, frequently in the dark after completing his chores on the farm. His rise to the top of professional cycling was dramatic, and early in his care

er Landis landed a spot on Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France team in 2002.

However, in early 2003 Landis crashed and suffered a devastating hip fracture. He came back to compete in the Tour de France that year, determined to help Lance win another title. Unfortunately his hip problems resurfaced the following year in 2004 shortly after helping Lance win his record breaking 6th Tour de France. Landis had developed avascular necrosis of the fracture hip bone and was suffering from severe degenerative arthritis as a result.

Landis had just signed with Team Phonak and was determined to fill his role as leader. He went forward with core decompression surgery in an attempt to salvage another year or two. The surgery was successful and after rehabilitation in 2005, Landis returned with a vengeance in 2006 knowing that it would be his last season before undergoing hip replacement surgery. He won Paris-Nice, Tour of Georgia, Tour of California and finally the Tour de France that year.

The fireworks had only begun when he returned an adverse analytical finding only days after his victory in the Tour de France. Landis fought the system and became the first athlete to ever make his case public. Landis single handedly revolutionized the anti-doping system and his moral victory is seen as a victory for athletes everywhere.

Landis underwent hip resurfacing surgery later that year and returned to professional cycling with Team OUCH in 2009, becoming the first professional cyclist to return to top level competition with an artificial joint. After 20,000 miles of cycling last year with his new hip, Landis now looks to regain his title as World’s Greatest Cyclist and, once again, inspire the world to greater heights in “classic” American style!