Article: Cycle: USADA head urges Landis to tell truth about doping


AAP Sports News (Australia)
07-02-2008
Cycle: USADA head urges Landis to tell truth about doping

By Steve Ginsburg

WASHINGTON, June 30 Reuters - US Anti-Doping Agency head Travis Tygart urged cyclist
Floyd Landis on Monday to tell the truth about his doping now that he has exhausted his
appeals over a failed drugs test during the 2006 Tour de France.

The Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld the 32-year-old American's
two-year doping ban on Monday.

"The decision sends a strong message that all of the misinformation, essentially the
frontal assault that he (Landis) did on the anti-doping establishment, was really without
any basis or merit," Tygart told Reuters.

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