According to a report on Tuttobiciweb Floyd was notified of the + result for testosterone several days before the finish in Paris and the UCI only got the result on the 25th of July. Now I have to go back and read his expressions on those final days when only he knew of the problem.

I'm pretty sure cyclocrosser Ben Berden raced for a while between being notified of his EPO positive and when it was officially announced. I remember seeing him on the podium and thinking that is one of the worse sour pusses I've ever seen on a guy. I think he also came up on a lapped Canadian rider at one of the races and knocked him off his bike b/c he didn't yield the best line. Afterwards, he said something like well I still need to pay for the new house :)

did it say landis knew, or just that it was known by the lab? here's the english googletranslation of the tuttobiciweb article off the front page.<br>

25/10/2006 Landis, famous the positività before the end of the Tour
Floyd Landis was officially positive to the drug test when the Tour de France has won. The Spanish daily paper “El Pais” travels over again the last days of Grande Boucle 2006. According to the newspaper, the laboratory Parisian of Chatenay-Malabry has collected before the test of positivita' of Landis the 21 July, to the 18.44. '' Practically - it writes El Pais- 48 hours before the end of the Tour ''. 22 saturdays July, to the 18,02, the laboratory have obtained the first confirmation of the use of testosterone from part of the American ciclista. '' All this has not prevented that Landis came rewarded as winning to the Elisi Fields the 23 July ''. The laboratory has informed international the ciclistica Union (Uci) only the 25 July, after to have completed the necessary analyses: the experts, according to the protocol, have had to execute according to confirmation control and have had to carry out also an additional analysis of radioactive isotopes you. '' All this - “El Pais” continues - has prevented to to the Oscar Pereiro (second in classifies, ndr) to go up on the podio with the destined yellow mesh the winner ''.
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These are the raw data, generated by the analytical instruments performing the tests. So NOBODY would have looked at the results until probably the next morning, on the 23rd which was the last day of the Tour. The second confirmatory run is dated on July 24--these are all on the A sample with another screening run performed on July 25th. The A sample IRMS analysis was performed around that time, as well. There is no way Landis could have known these results while the race was still underway

Oops, that will teach me not to skim it in a rush before a meeting.

Man those translations are bad. I haven't used one for a few years and I thought they would have been better by now.