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MALIBU, Calif. (AP) _ Floyd Landis' former manager was set to
enter rehab Monday, a revelation made in the hours before the Tour
de France champion was to take the witness stand for what promised
to be a hostile cross-examination.
In a letter written by Brent Kay, Landis' new manager, and posted
on the ``Trust But Verify'' blog, Kay acknowledged Will Geoghegan is
``entering a rehabilitation program today in an effort to address
his problems.''
Geoghegan called Greg ...
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Tour de France champion Floyd Landis renewed his attack Tuesday on the credibility of the French lab that conducted follow-up tests on his backup urine samples and reportedly found traces of synthetic testosterone.
``If it's going to be objective, the least you could do is send it to a lab that doesn't have motivation to confirm their work in the first place,'' Landis said on CBS' ``Early Show.''
On Monday, ...
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Floyd Landis' camp praised French Sports Minister Jean-Francois Lamour for requesting a postponement of next week's hearing by the country's anti-doping agency.
Landis, whose urine sample for a Tour de France stage was found to contain elevated testosterone to epitestosterone levels, has been summoned to appear before a nine-member panel of the French anti-doping agency on Thursday.
However, Lamour, who was speaking in his role as vice-president of the World ...
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has been called to a hearing by the French anti-doping agency to determine whether he can race again in France.
Landis, who tested positive for elevated testosterone levels during last year's Tour, did not immediately say whether he would attend the hearing in Paris on Feb. 8, officials of the French Agency Against Doping said Friday.
The American cyclist, who has consistently denied allegations ...
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A retired medical doctor and friend of Floyd
Landis is expanding his defence of the cyclist, contending a
detailed analysis of documents shows the Tour de France champion did
not have a positive drug test after all.
Dr. Arnie Baker made the case in a slideshow presentation Friday
evening at the Tucson Convention Center, headquarters of the El Tour
de Tucson race scheduled for Saturday.
Landis' agent Michael Henson said Landis was in Tucson to be the
official ...
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World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound defended the French lab whose credibility is under scrutiny for its handling of Floyd Landis' samples during the Tour de France.
Pound, a Montreal lawyer, said Wednesday the case against the American cyclist should not be derailed by a mistake in the labelling of his backup urine specimen and the theft of data from the lab by computer hackers.
``For me, the real problem ...
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The French anti-doping lab that tested American cyclist Floyd Landis' urine samples made an ``administrative error'' when reporting its findings on his backup ``B'' sample, the French newspaper Le Monde reported Wednesday.
The newspaper cited unnamed sources as saying the Chatenay-Malabry laboratory gave the wrong number in its report about Landis' second sample. Tests on the rider's two samples indicated that Landis had elevated levels of testosterone in his system ...
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Floyd Landis rolled out key elements of his defence against doping charges in an online presentation Thursday, several months before the cyclist is to present his case to an arbitration panel in hopes of keeping his Tour de France title.
Early Thursday, Landis posted a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Arnie Baker, a retired doctor and longtime coach and adviser, as well as several hundred pages of documents related to the ...
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Floyd Landis might be on to something.
Lord help the sports world if he is.
With a request to dismiss the doping case against him denied three weeks ago, the cyclist and his handlers have decided they won't stand pat during the three months before Landis' arbitration hearing is scheduled to begin. So he's going public with his latest defence, apparently undeterred that a half-dozen previous attempts were huge flops. ...
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After two trying months marked by doping allegations, an assault on his reputation and his father-in-law's suicide, Floyd Landis doesn't wish for a stirring comeback so much as the simpler things in life.
At this point, he'll take a good night's sleep, free of pain.
To reach that goal, Landis had hip-replacement surgery last week. With his rehab under way, the 30-year-old won't rule out a return to competitive cycling ...
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