Floyd Landis has stated that he is contemplating a return to the Tour de France in 2010. The American rider won the event in 2006 but was subsequently stripped of the title when he tested positive for synthetic testosterone during the race.
During an interview with the Reuters news agency published today, Landis said "I will take a few weeks of peace and quiet to assess what I want to do with the next years of my life.
"If I went back to the Tour de France the objective would be to win it again. And the objective would be for the resulting win to give me some time to enjoy it rather than the way it played out last time."
But Landis has seen Armstrong's successful comeback from retirement and obviously wants a piece of the action for himself.
And then there's the issue of whether he can get signed to a major team that gets selected for the event - again, doubtful given his high-profile positive drug test and the subsequent implosion of his 2006 team, Phonak as a result.
Finally, there's whether he can get fit enough to be competitive at the Tour, particularly given he has suffered on-going degenerative problems with his hips.
It's one thing to want to ride the Tour; it's another for the Tour to want you to ride it.
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