As soon as the story of an "unidentified" rider testing positive for doping during the Tour de France came across the wire yesterday, I immediatley thought of Floyd Landis.

I mean, this cat rode a tiny bicycle for a month all over France with a bad hip and didn't need any drugs? I'm fairly certain if I had a hip in the condition his is in, I'd probably need about 20 pills to even roll out of bed in the morning.

Anyway, he was the first person I thought about. Which isn't saying a whole lot, since he's the only rider I've even heard of now that that German guy got booted before the race and Lance is done.

So, I think there are two ways to look at this situation.

1.) Landis Doped.
2.) The French Don't Like Americans Winning Their Race.

And as much as I'd like to believe that second one, I really think it's the first one.

The French seemed to always have it out for Lance Armstrong, but they could never really get anything pinned on him and Lance rides off into the sunset with his seven-straight Tour championships. At least, for now, the French aren't giving up on him.

So, if the reports that came out yesterday and this morning are true and if that second sample Landis wants tested tests positive, Landis appears to be done.

They never had this kind of evidence on Lance. Not good for Landis.

Now, it's a shame the test gets back a couple days after the race is actually over. Because that's like giving someone the Christmas present they've always wanted and then just ripping that thing away later that week.

Maybe they could've gotten the results back late last week when everyone thought Landis had ridden himself out of the race. That, of course, before he made up something like 8 minutes in one stage. (That seems a bit too easy, too, doesn't it?)

I mean, if there were a Tour de France Playstation game (which there might be, I don't know) that's the kind of thing you could do. Just set the difficulty level to the lowest for that stage of the race and make up your 8 minutes and get back in the thing.

Not real realistic though, or at least it wasn't until last week and now this week it's in question again.

I don't really want to believe that Landis doped. I like the fact that the Americans go over there and win the race every year. He seemed like an alright guy and the story about his hip was just unbelievable.

Of course, now the whole thing looks too good to be true.

But at least most newspapers didn't run the story real big, because that Tiger Woods fella won one of those majors in a pretty emotional fashion. And best we can tell, he didn't dope, and most of the world enjoys some golf more than they do bicycle racing.

Yeah, Landis' apparent bad decision was a poor one. But, here in a couple weeks when that first pre-season NFL game kicks off, we won't even remember who Floyd Landis is or what he did.