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International arrest warrant issued for Floyd Landis

Disgraced Tour de France "winner" allegedly hacked into French anti-doping agency's computers...

France’s anti-doping authority, l'Agence Française de lutte contre le dopage (AFLD), has revealed that an international arrest warrant has been issued for the American cyclist Floyd Landis after he failed failing to appear before a judge to explain how he came by certain information used in his defence as he tried to clear his name after being stripped of his 2006 Tour de France.

Landis, who had become the first cyclist to stand on the Champs-Élysées podium in the yellow jersey following compatriot Lance Armstrong’s seven year domination of the race, was subsequently revealed to have tested positive for an abnormal testosterone/epitestosterone (T/E) ratio on Stage 17 of the race.

The former Phonak rider won that stage with a stunning 120km solo break after apparently falling out of contention for the overall win on the previous day’s stage, when he dropped from 1st to 11th in the general classification.

Landis and his coach Arnie Baker had been called last October by Judge Thomas Cassuto of the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Nanterre to explain how he could have come by certain information used in his defence – information, it is alleged, that could only have been obtained by hacking into the AFLD’s computer system.

The cyclist’s failure to appear resulted in a warrant for his arrest being issued last November, and AFLD President Pierre Brody has revealed that a second warrant was issued on 28 January.

According to Agence France-Presse, Landis has spent some $1.6 million on legal fees incurred in a string of arbitration hearings and appeals as he tries to clear his name, his efforts proving fruitless as the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected his case in 2008.
 

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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roadie69 | 14 years ago
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Doubt it Skippy  39

Floyd was just caught out doing what the others are doing a fair bit of themselves, plus he did it with way more style.

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skippy | 14 years ago
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The afternoon Flandis won i was staying in MoOrzine with some english people who i had just met. They were raving about his result and i incurred the warning about finding another pace to sleep if i persisted in my comments. Time saw that i was correct but i am still waiting for this "disgrace to cycling" to stop wasting people's time with his protestations!
French justice is different to ours but you still get a fair hearingand it does not matter that you spend 10 times the amount truth will always surface.
Could it be that the other racers let him win that day because they knew something that we don't?

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Hammy | 14 years ago
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He's like Lance from the dark side. Ah hang on…

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stereojet | 14 years ago
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Floyd the Fugitive! What a naughty boy

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