CAS Panel Upholds Landis Disqualification
Here is the Opinion of the Court of Arbitration for Sport upholding the decision to disqualify Floyd Landis and strip him of his Tour de France Title. The panel concedes that the initial testing by the French which found traces of synthetic testosterone in Landis’s urine was seriously flawed and departed from the standards by which such tests are governed. Still, three arbitrators found against Landis who had reportedly spent 4 million dollars fighting for his vindication. The panel also ordered Landis to pay $100,000 in legal fees and costs because it said the defense team raised “barely arguable” issues of bias and fraud. In fact, Landis had presented credible evidence that the lab personnel failed to maintain the proper chain of custody of his samples under questionable motives.
The hearings were held behind closed doors despite the attempts by Landis and others to hold them where the media and the public could attend.
Landis, whose endurance has always served him well, responded: "They will never get to the end of how much I can take. I'm not happy that I'm the person who has to take this, but I would never allow myself to be treated this way and ever give up."
Alan Milstein
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