Landis outlines doping defence

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2006

PARIS (AFP) — Tour de France winner Floyd Landis released a detailed online presentation which he claims proves his innocence after he tested positive for testosterone during his yellow jersey campaign. The American, who tested positive for the banned male sex hormone after the race's 17th stage, has always protested his innocence and is hoping the several hundreds of pages of evidence will help clear his name.

So far Landis has not been sanctioned. He is scheduled to present his case to an arbitration panel in a few months time in the hope that alleged inconsistencies in the testing procedures will clear his name. In the event of a sanction, Landis would become the first winner of the world's most famous bike race to lose the yellow jersey for a doping offence. Early...