Floyd Landis gets his long awaited CAS court date
Floyd Landis gets his long awaited CAS court date
Floyd Landis will not get his chance to present his appeal to a Court of Arbitration for Sport panel in New York on March 19, the American’s lawyer Maurice Suh announced. The CAS appearance is the final stage of appeal in the former professional cyclists’ 18-month long legal battle.
On July 27, 2006 Tour de France organizer ASO announced that Landis had returned a positive test for an abnormal ratio of testosterone/epitestosterone in an anti-doping test conducted after his victory on Stage 17 of the Tour de France. The B-sample test confirmed the result which got Floyd Landis fired by his team, Phonak, which later disbanded at the end of 2006 following the withdrawal of the new major sponsor iShares.
The American Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) held an arbitration hearing in 2007 where a panel heard the former Phonak-rider’s case. The USADA handed down a two year ban to the American, which will end on January 29, 2009 if CAS fails to overturn the decision, after it upheld the findings of the French Châtenay-Malabry laboratory that Landis had used synthetic testosterone.
Despite Landis’ appeal to CAS, Tour de France organizer ASO held a ceremony in Spain after the USADA verdict was handed down, at which it formerly handed the Tour winner’s yellow jersey to original runner-up Oscare Pereiro.
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