Floyd Landis Speaks At Google

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Floyd Landis, winner of the 2006 Tour de France and a highly controversial figure due to allegations he won thanks to the use of performance enhancements, spoke at Google last Friday about his book “Positively False“.

Landis answers questions from the audience for most of the session, and the answers are very interesting. You get a really good idea of how painful cycling is and how hard the sport can be. Landis mentions how Lance Armstrong is very “obsessive” and as a result, doesn’t have a whole lot of friends.
One Googler asks him how, after you have a really bad stage, like he did on Stage 16 (before a huge performance on 17 that won him the race), how do you motivate yourself and get back on the bike, and he answers, “They have this thing called alcohol”.
Another asked how the amount of research being put […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg