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Floyd Landis grew up in Farmersville, Pennsylvania, in a Mennonite family.

Like the Amish, some Mennonites avoid modern technology. Though his family had

electricity, there was no radio or television to occupy young Landis' time. So he rode his bike.

Let's take a listen to this story. My name is Floyd Landis. I grew up as a Mennonite kid in Lancaster, Pennsylvania,

through a bunch of strange twists and turns in life, ended up winning the tour to France,

but that's the end of the story.

Where it all started was as kind of a naive kid and a religious community that doesn't really embrace professional

sports or encourage professional sports. Most people know about the Amish, the Knights in the Amish,

share a lot of the same beliefs and sort of conservative hard work approach to life.

And so, yeah, the first, I guess, 20 years of my life,

I don't think I missed a Sunday of church, Sunday night of church,

often Wednesday night, Saturday nights.

They spend a lot of time at church.

That's the center of the community and the center of the,

it's more than a religion. It's kind of its own little environment, its own little society, right?

And they're good people.

They take care of each other.

They value things that I think most people would value,

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