http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/more_sport/cycling/article7131630.ece [Back in February 2010 Floyd Landis was accused of hacking into a doping lab - http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/1002/17254.html - WK] By Owen Slot The Times May 21, 2010 After four years and 1 million spent attempting to prove that he was innocent of taking banned performanceenhancing drugs, Floyd Landis opted for honesty yesterday and, in acknowledging a career built on lies, tried to bring down with him as much of the world's cycling establishment as possible in the process. His biggest target was Lance Armstrong, who has been ducking and weaving past allegations such as this for more than a decade and, in such encounters, invariably manages to land the last punch. Already, albeit at this early stage, it would seem that Landis has swung and missed. Landis, 34, has claimed that Armstrong was his partner in a regime of illegal doping when they were with the US Postal team together and he names a number of other American riders who were allegedly part of the same set-up. He then goes up the power chain and claims that Armstrong.s long-term coach, Johan Bruyneel, guided him on the path to drug-taking and he implicates the International Cycling Union (UCI), the sport's world governing body, in being party to overlooking such illegal practices. Much of the above has been written, discussed or gossiped about before. The shock in this case is in the public way that Landis has gone about it and in the detail of his allegations. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! Shop InfoSec News http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Thu May 20 2010 - 22:32:23 PDT
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