Floyd Landis

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Freakonomics Radio · 662. If You’re Not Cheating, You’re Not Trying · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

Then it's fun, right?

Like you win the race.

You think, okay, well, I'm just going to do this.

But it's one thing to be good at junior sports, and then it's a whole other level to be good at the very high end of the professional athletics.

And you don't really know how far you can get.

There were times when I really committed to it and said, this is what I'm going to do.

And there were times when it felt like I'd made the wrong choice, but I didn't really have other alternative options.

And so I just kept going.

How old were you when you became world-class athlete?

I raced mountain bikes.

I won the junior national championships in 1993 when I was 17.

I raced professional mountain bikes for three or four years after that.

And then I switched to road racing and within a couple of years ended up on the postal service team.

That was luck too, right?

Lance was winning and it was an American team and I happened to be an American with some talent.

Right.

Five years earlier, there wouldn't have been a big American team like that for you to be on, I guess.

Yeah, that's right.

A lot of these things are just chance.

I got hired onto the team in 2002 when I was 26 years old at that point.

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