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  • June 2008

    • Landis Can't Overturn Ban

      Reuters  |  Jun 30, 08 12:23 PM CDT

      Landis Can't Overturn Ban

      (Newser) - Cyclist Floyd Landis lost perhaps his final chance to keep his 2006 Tour de France title today, the AP reports, with a key panel upholding a 2-year doping ban. The three-person Court of Arbitration for Sport said Landis’ drug test was the product of “less than ideal laboratory practices, but not lies, fraud, forgery or cover-ups” as the American claimed. More »

  • October 2007

    • Oscar Pereiro is 2006 Tour de France Winner

      Associated Press  |  Oct 15, 07 5:28 PM CDT

      Oscar Pereiro is 2006 Tour de France Winner

      (Newser) - Oscar Pereiro held up the yellow winner's jersey after he was formally moved up from second to first place in the 2006 Tour de France, the AP reports. "I have the feeling of arriving at the end of a thriller, after having spent 14 months thinking about it...It is essentially a kind of release," said Pereiro during an awards ceremony at Spain's Sport Ministry. More »

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      Tour de France  • cycling  • Floyd Landis

    • Landis Says He'll Appeal Ruling, Fight for Title

      ESPN  |  Oct 10, 07 7:14 PM CDT

      Landis Says He'll Appeal Ruling, Fight for Title

      (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." More »

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      Tour de France  • cycling  • sports doping  • Floyd Landis  • Court of Arbitration for Sport  • USADA

  • September 2007

    • Landis Must Forfeit Tour Title

      Associated Press  |  Sep 20, 07 3:07 PM CDT

      Landis Must Forfeit Tour Title

      (Newser) - Cyclist Floyd Landis lost his doping case today, and must give up his 2006 Tour de France title after arbitrators voted to uphold test results showing Landis cheated during his victory. He was banned from cycling until 2009; short a successful appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the American will be the first to lose a Tour title. More »

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      drug use  • Tour de France  • cycling  • doping  • Floyd Landis

  • May 2007

    • Doping Scandal Takes a Turn for the Tabloid

      New York Daily News  |  May 18, 07 8:14 AM CDT

      Doping Scandal Takes a Turn for the Tabloid

      (Newser) - Floyd Landis' doping hearing vaulted from procedural to lurid yesterday with an allegation of harassment and acknowledgment of sexual abuse by a fellow American Tour de France winner. In an attempt to keep Greg LeMond from taking the stand, Landis' manager phoned him on Wednesday and impersonated the uncle who had sexually abused the cycling champ as a child. More »

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      drugs  • steroids  • drug use  • abuse  • cycling  • Floyd Landis  • harassment

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