Floyd Landis

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298 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 6 Feb

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

When I was a kid and when I first got into this and was winning mountain bike races and

just enjoying my life.

This never crossed my mind that this was a decision that would be confronted with.

To this day, there is no doubt in my mind that everybody involved knew and was in on it.

I mean, people like to call it cheating.

You can call it that.

I'm not sure who was cheated, but that's just what it was.

By the time I got to being one of the lieutenants on the Postal Service team with Lance, I understood it to be part of what was happening.

I just came to accept that either I'm going to have to quit...

or I'm going to have to accept that this is just what it is.

I don't know that I understood the magnitude of the risk, but I understood that people viewed it in different ways, depending on their perspective on the sport.

If you're on the inside, it's one thing, and if you're on the outside, it's another.

And I can't say it was a matter of guilt.

I didn't really like it, but there wasn't anything I could do about it.

No, in cycling, the amounts of these anabolics, which are usually the more risky drugs that you would take in sports, it's such a small amount because you don't want to gain muscle mass.

You just want to recover from it.

Man, I haven't really thought about it too much since.

So many things happened since then.

But even if you win the race, you're extremely tired.

You're not, you know, out partying.

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