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Article: Landis will appeal doping ruling
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- October 11, 2007
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Floyd Landis has one more chance to regain his 2006 Tour de
France title. Like almost every other campaign he has waged in this
long struggle, he'll be starting from behind.
The American cyclist decided Wednesday to try to regain his
championship at the Court of Arbitration for Sport - the top court
for sports - hoping arbitrators there will reverse an earlier
decision to ban him for two years and strip him of his title for
using performance-enhancing drugs.
"I hope that the arbitrators of the case will fairly address the
facts showing that the French laboratory made mistakes, which
resulted in a false positive," Landis said. "Although the process of
proving my innocence has been difficult ...
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