BBC QUESTIONS TESTOSTERONE TEST

Doping

BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme recently investigated the testosterone test, labelling it 'the test that catches the innocent but might miss the guilty'.

With Floyd Landis' future depending on the credibility of this very test, after testing positive for testosterone in the final week of the Tour de France, his defence will be buoyed by the number of questions that appear to be hanging over the test that records a person's testosterone:epitestosterone (T:E) ratio.

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Simon Richardson
Magazine editor

Editor of Cycling Weekly magazine, Simon has been working at the title since 2001. He fell in love with cycling 1989 when watching the Tour de France on Channel 4, started racing in 1995 and in 2000 he spent one season racing in Belgium. During his time at CW (and Cycle Sport magazine) he has written product reviews, fitness features, pro interviews, race coverage and news. He has covered the Tour de France more times than he can remember along with two Olympic Games and many other international and UK domestic races. He became the 130-year-old magazine's 13th editor in 2015.