A United States arbitration panel has ended deliberations on embattled 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis’s doping case and will reveal its ruling in the next seven days, the American’s lawyer said on Monday.
Landis tested positive for the banned male sex hormone testosterone but has maintained his innocence, blaming the positive test on incompetence by the French laboratory that analysed his urine samples.
”The arbitration panel has reached a verdict three days ago. They have 10 days to announce it so the decision will be known by next Monday at the latest,” Kelly Power told Reuters on Monday.
Since the announcement after the Tour that he had failed a doping test, Landis has been fighting the United States Anti-Doping Agency, which has never lost a case on appeal.
If found guilty, Landis faces a two-year suspension and the possibility of becoming the first Tour winner to be stripped of his title. — Reuters