According to this WallStreetJournal Online article, that might just be what Landis hopes. Floyd Landis says he drank two beers and "at least" four shots of whiskey after the worst day of his professional career. This might cost him the Tour de France title.
The elevated ratio or testosterone in his urine test could be attributed to his drinking. Testosterone and epitestosterone generally are in balance in the body, but some athletes inject steroids or other substances to artificially raise their testosterone levels, which can help long-term muscle building. (Though it generally takes more than a single day for any muscle-building effect to appear.)
The day after his drunken night, Mr. Landis's T/E ratio was found to be 11-to-1, well above the 4-to-1 limit set by international cycling. But athletes' testosterone levels vary widely; for example, a test of saliva in U.S. university students this year found an eight-fold range of the hormone. If Mr. Landis's T/E ratio is normally toward the high end, a night of drinking could have raised it dramatically, putting him above cycling's limit.
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