The odd thing is that testosterone takes time (several weeks) to build up muscle tissue. It would have had little effect in the short term. Given that Landis passed six previous drug tests during the Tour it's curious that he would have started taking such a slow acting drug rather late in the race.
It would still be cheating*, ofc, but it seems like really dumb cheating.
*Cheating in the sense of being against the rules. I don't care what drugs various sport governing bodies want to allow or disallow, but obviously they have a right and an obligation to enforce their rules--whatever they may be.
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