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Article: In pursuit of the truth; Cycling star Landis claims arbitration will show USADA messed up his case
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 13, 2007
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Whom do you believe, Floyd Landis or the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency?
Landis contends he won the Tour de France last summer fair and
square. He says the USADA, which claims he used synthetic
testosterone while competing, is corrupt and should come crashing
down. And he says the French lab that tested his urine specimens
blundered its way through the process. Landis intends not only to
prove his innocence at his public arbitration hearing, which is
scheduled to begin Monday at Pepperdine University, but also to
render the USADA impotent.
"If they lose this, they cease to exist," Landis told the
Associated Press. "I don't see any other way. It would be no point
in them going on. They've made ...