FLOYD LANDIS’s astonishing performance over the torturous mountain stages of this year’s Tour de France, which he went on to win, will look a little less impressive if the drugs test he failed during the race is backed up by tests on a second sample. So too do the achievements of the sprinter Justin Gatlin, Olympic champion and joint holder of the world 100-metre record, who disclosed last weekend that he had failed a drugs test in April (see “Does drug testing tell the whole story?”).
These revelations have prompted much wailing over the state of sport, but they…
