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Floyd Landis helped Lance
Armstrong win the 2002 Tour de France. In January of 2003, Floyd
crashed in training and fractured his hip, badly displacing the head
of the femur. Surgery repaired the fracture, but the real damage
wouldn’t be seen for a few years.
In 2006, Floyd’s hip pain increased as he won the inaugural Tour of
California, the Paris-Nice stage race, the Tour de Georgia and the
2006 Tour de France. In September of 2006 he received a BHR Hip.
“We went through quite a bit of information and options, including
other possible resurfacings. Right from the beginning we were pretty
sure that resurfacing was the ideal thing. By the time we learned
everything there was to know about it, it became apparent that the
BHR really, based on its history, the amount of experience, the
amount of testing that has gone into it, the amount of time it has
been around, it was by far the best option to give me the best
chances to come back to the level I was at before. We did look at it
with caution, and none of the decisions we made were based on
sacrificing anything just so I could continue to race my bicycle. It
was more that we wanted the best thing for me for my age that would
give me the longest and the best quality of life.”
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