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BREAKING: Floyd Landis Wants Retests at UCLA

By velociraptor on April 13th, 2007

BREAKING HEADLINE:
American cyclist Landis wants new tests at UCLA

NEW YORK (Apr 13, 2007)

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency will test backup urine samples from Tour de France champion Floyd Landis over the cyclist’s protests about the need for the tests and the credentials of the French lab where they’ll be analyzed.

Landis, who tested positive at last year’s Tour, said the tests aren’t necessary because the primary “A” samples were negative for doping. If the tests must take place, though, he wants them done at the UCLA lab that handles much of USADA’s testing.

But the machine used for the tests at UCLA is under repair and won’t be running by next Monday, which is when the backup samples are to be tested.

“We couldn’t do them,” said Don Catlin, who recently stepped down as head of the UCLA lab. “It was very clear and the reason we couldn’t do them is that we had one instrument, and it was down.”