Floyd Landis loses the 2006 Tour de France...again

Just in: In the longest contest in world sports history (slightly shorter than World War 2), the official results of the 2006 Tour de France are in.  Floyd Landis lost his appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Amazing.  You all know about the history of the deal.  Landis wins the '06 Tour.  He tests positive for testosterone (high T:E ratio).  Landis is disqualified, resulting in a huge uproar from Landis fans.  Landis takes his defense to the people with the Wiki-Defense.  Landis loses a split decision at the USADA hearings in Malibu CA.  Landis loses appeal at the the CAS.  Books are written.

Is the Landis saga over?  Doubt it.  Next up: The 1985 World Series will be decided by the end of July at the CAS -- Denkinger's bad call to be debated.

  Guardian link here.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed Floyd Landis' appeal to regain the 2006 Tour de France title and upheld his two-year drugs ban.

Landis was stripped of the title - which passed to Spaniard Oscar Pereiro - and handed a two-year ban from the sport after testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone.

CAS' verdict sees the 32-year-old disqualified from the 2006 race and banned from cycling for two years from January 30, 2007. He has also been ordered to pay US 100,000 (£50,000) to the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

Landis has always maintained his innocence and appealed the decision against him at every stage.

Today's ruling was his last hope of clearing his name and his failure to do so means he is the first rider in the 105-year history of the Tour to be stripped of a title for doping.

Landis' first appeal failed last September when the USADA upheld the original ruling after agreeing his sample from Stage 17 of the Tour was positive for exogenous testosterone.

Within three weeks of that ruling, Landis announced he would appeal to CAS, saying: "I hope the CAS panel will review my case on the basis of the facts and the science, and to approach my appeal from the principle that the anti-doping authorities must uphold the highest levels of appropriate process, technical skill, science and professional standards to pronounce judgment on matters that hold an athlete's career, accomplishments and livelihood in the balance."

That appeal was heard behind closed doors in New York in March this year, with CAS hearing 35 hours of evidence.

Such was the volume of evidence, CAS immediately warned that it would require several months to reach a verdict.

The two-year ban imposed on Landis applied from January 2007, meaning he faces another seven months out of the sport in the wake of today's verdict.

CAS' verdict comes just five days before the start of the 2008 Tour de France. 

Comments

[Gary Beck]

Glad to see that the science of the case was ignored as evidenced by the court scolding Landis. Why doesn't the high T/E ration show up in test samples taken on other days?!?!?? Either the tests made on those samples are in error or the tests made on the initial samples are in error. Also the testosterone should be present in diminishing levels as it is metabolized over time but alas it is not present at all!!! The court, by including comments about Landis' defense, shows that extraneous factors beside the science of the case were included. Shame on CAS you were called on to judge the scientific evidence of the case and you acted as the lapdog of the USADA and WADA both of which have shown a callous disregard for their own rules as well as for fairness!!

[paul]

Stop apologizing for the drug cheat. Are you a chemist, I would guess no. You knowledge on levels of diminished of foreign agents in the human body is gleamed from? I would hazard a guess its from some other armchair scientist. You make these statments like you actually have some knowledge or authority to do so. It is sad and old. Landis is found GUILTY, FACT. HE IS ACCORDING TO THE LEGAL AND TESTING PROCESS A CONVICTED DRUG CHEAT, FACT. Read the findings without you Landis fan boy jersey on and you will see that they address everything , just don't give the answers you want.
My only regret is it didn't carry the death penalty.

[Brian]

Wow Paul, death penalty for cheating in a sporting event? I'd rather save that for the rotten SOB's who invented all these new financial instruments that are gonna push the world to the brink of a new depression - while they sit back and count the billions they banked.

While we're discussing accuracy of scientific data and death penalty, let's not forget the death row inmates who've been exonerated when the evidence against them was analyzed with newer, more modern techniques. In 20 years, we'll have even better testing technologies and capabilities that will condemn some and exonerate others. No, I'm not a chemist, armchair or otherwise, but I do have a PhD in electrical engineering. I do peer reviews for technical journals from time to time. There are instances where one cannot directly dispute the author's data or methods but it just doesn't have the right feel to it. In the case of Landis, I think the outcome is correct, but the means it was arrived at seems a bit suspect.

[Oprah Noodlemantra]

Hey Paul, here's another question: are you a chemist? Judging from how you have just proven yourself as an entirely unintelligent, incompetent, and unaware moron, I'm going to not only hazard a guess but know for a fact that you aren't. Also, I can hereby state without fear of contradiction that you know nothing of the facts of this case. Nothing-- at all. Have you read Landis's book? Obviously, you have not. Have you studied the case at all? Clearly, you haven't. Instead, you would rather come on here and make comments on something that you know nothing about. It is people like you who, Paul, who make up the vast majority of the population: ignorant, uniformed, oblivious, and-- to compound these already undesirable traits-- too lazy to find anything out on your own, too lazy search for the facts and identify what is true and what is false because you have already made up your mind and refuse to believe anything else.

And my only regret is that your stupidity doesn't carry the death penalty.

[bill]

I think that you all have valuable opinions and that we should agree to dissagree.

[Sarah K]

It's good to see cyclists who actually use their athletic ability

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Rj8KDHn_w

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And my only regret is that your stupidity doesn't carry the death penalty.

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