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Landis Says He'll Appeal Ruling, Fight for Title

Posted Oct 10, 07 7:14 PM CDT in World,  US,  Sports 

(Newser) – US cyclist Floyd Landis' fight to retain his 2006 Tour de France title will go on, he tells ESPN.com. "I won the 2006 Tour de France fair and square," Landis writes on his website. That's why he is asking a Swiss-based sports court to reverse the split decision of a US Anti-Doping Agency panel, which Landis labels "contradictory and nonsensical."

The Court of Arbitration for Sport is considered the last resort in such cases. Landis' legal team says it will focus on sloppiness by the French lab hired to conduct the Tour's drug tests—which all three judges on the US panel criticized. Two, though, ultimately decided the lab adequately demonstrated Landis used synthetic testosterone prior to winning a key Tour stage.

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Arbitrators, from left, Chris Campbell, Patrice Brunet and Richard McLaren confer during an arbitration hearing on the doping allegations against 2006 Tour de France cycling champion Floyd Landis at Pepperdiine...   (Associated Press)
2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis of the U.S. holds his trophy on the podium after the final stage of the 93rd Tour de France cycling race between Antony, south of Paris, and Paris, in this July...   (Associated Press)
Floyd Landis is sworn in during an arbitration hearing on the doping allegations against 2006 Tour de France cycling champion Floyd Landis at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., in this May 19, 2007...   (Associated Press)
Arlene Landis, mother of cyclist Floyd Landis, listens to testimony from United States Anti-Doping Agency witness J. Thomas Brenna, Nutritional Sciences professor at Cornell University, during an arbitration...   (Associated Press)
Spanish cyclist Oscar Pereiro, is seen during a press conference in this Aug. 5, 2006 file photo in Vigo, northern Spain. Pereiro, who came second to U.S. rider Floyd Landis in the 2006 Tour de France...   (Associated Press)
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