Last week I linked to a feature length story published in the Wall Street Journal in which Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour Championship due to doping, laid-out detailed doping allegations against Lance Armstrong and the U.S. Postal / Discovery teams.
My first take on the article was that these were the words of a sore loser trying to get revenge for some perceived snub. However, officials have apparently taken these allegations very seriously. An article in yesterday's Weekend Edition of the WSJ states that the Food and Drug Administration and anti-doping officials in the U.S. and in a handful of other countries are looking into the situation. Interpol, the international police organization, is bringing other law enforcement agencies into the probe as well.
Moreover, the article also points out that other riders and team officials are stepping forward with similar stories provided by Landis in last weeks' article.
This appears to be very serious, and reminiscent of Operacion Puerto which brought down or implicated several top names in European cycling.
In other words, this could be the equivalent of Watergate for American Cycling.
Jeff
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