Image: Tour de France 2006 yellow jersey (Floyd Landis)

Description: Paris, 23 July 2006. In the 2006 Tour de France, Floyd Landis cycled from a hopeless position to a final victory. Even if only for a short time, because two days after Paris he apparently tested positive in a doping test on 20 July in Morzine. That was the day of his famous monster breakaway. After having suffered a problem the day before in the stage leading to La Toussuire, the American went on the attack with a 128 kilometre ascent still ahead of him. Landis thus heroically narrowed his gap with the leader Oscar Pereiro to less than one minute. Landis clinched the yellow jersey during the time trial on the penultimate day but this success was short-lived, as Floyd Landis has entered the history books as the first Tour de France winner to lose his triumph because of doping.
Title: Yellow jersey, Floyd Landis, Tour de France, 2006
Credit: KOERS. Museum van de Wielersport
Author: Nike
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