It’s been a big week for the dope-busters! Having watching Floyd Landis reclaim the yellow jersey on Stage 17 of the Tour de France, after falling apart the prevous day, I was a little suspicious, but I opted to downplay my usual cynicism when it comes to extraordinary sporting performances and give him the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn’t have bothered really. My general maxim still stands: if a sporting performace seems too good to be true, it probably is.

His B sample is due for testing today, but rumours abound that a second, more specific test on the A sample has detected exogenous testosterone, meaning it came from outside his body and was not generated naturally. If this is the case, then he’s screwed.

Hot on the heels of Landis’s case we hear that Justin Gatlin, the ’world’s fastest man’ at 9.77 for 100m, has tested positive for testosterone as well. Looks like he’s screwed too as he had a previous positive for amphetamines caused by a treatment for ADD.

I still maintain that Ben Johnson was the greatest ever! Drugged or not, it’s almost 20 years since he ran 9.79 in Seoul and they’ve only shaved 0.02secs off that, and one of those two was also on the gear.