AthleteAmerican1975 – present
Floyd Landis
Cyclist, 2006 Tour de France winner, doping scandal whistleblower
Biography
An American professional cyclist who won the Tour de France in 2006 but was later stripped of the title due to a doping scandal that became one of sports' most controversial cases.
Quick Facts
Category
Athlete
Nationality
American
Born
1975
Thinking about the name
Floyde
Welsh origin
“An archaic or dialectal spelling of Floyd, sometimes used in early American records and rural communities, Floyde represents an older orthographic convention. The -e ending gives it a faintly Old English flavor and appears occasionally in genealogical records from the 18th–19th centuries.”