UPDATE: Floyd Landis Loses Tour de France Battle
The costly legal battle by the cyclist Floyd Landis to recover his title as the winner of the 2006 Tour de France came to an apparent end on Monday.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport, the final international appeals body, upheld a United States Anti-Doping Agency panel’s decision that synthetic testosterone had played a role in Landis’s victory.
The court ordered Landis to pay Usada $100,000 as a partial reimbursement for its costs in the appeal. The case cost the organization and the World Anti-Doping Agency millions of dollars in legal fees.
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