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Nieuws uit Floyd's kamp:
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LANDIS’ LAWYER TO SUBMIT FORMAL REQUEST RECOMMENDING DISMISSAL OF CASE AGAINST TOUR DE FRANCE CHAMPION
September 8th, 2006
Los Angeles, September 8, 2006 – Howard Jacobs, attorney for 2006 Tour de France Champion Floyd Landis, today announced that he will submit a formal request to USADA on September 11 recommending that the anti-doping agency drop the allegations against Landis and cease further disciplinary action.
Upon review of 370 pages of documentation provided by the LNDD laboratory at Chatenay-Malabry, Jacobs and a team of scientific experts have found inconsistencies in the testing protocol and methodology that support Landis’ innocence. Jacobs received the official document package on August 31.
“In our review of the documents detailing the tests on both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ sample, we have found evidence that supports our request for USADA to drop the doping charges against Landis,” said Jacobs. “While I cannot comment on the full details of our findings, we now have the foundation for a very strong defense should the case proceed to arbitration.”
If USADA recommends that the case proceed to arbitration, then Landis and Jacobs will invoke for the first time a rule of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) that allows for athletes contesting doping charges to request that their hearing be made open to the public. The review board will make a recommendation to USADA within one week of the written submission.
“Once again, we are asking for complete transparency in this process. Floyd has maintained his innocence from the outset and what we have found in the official document package points to a premature public conviction before all of the evidence could be considered,” added Jacobs. “This is another example why the leaking of an ‘A’ sample results and violating the athletes’ right to anonymity is such a horrible thing. It is this exact scenario that caused the Rules governing anti-doping cases in the United States to be amended in 2004, to allow an athlete concerned about fairness to request that a hearing be opened to the public.”
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