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Arrest warrant for American cyclist Landis due to computer hacking
by Zuzana Zelenakova

In 2006, the American cyclist Floyd Landis was stripped of the winning title of Tour de France after his anti-doping test results came out positive less than a week after the race. To enhance his performance he took a dose of synthetic testosterone. Now, the French judge Thomas Cassuto from Paris suburd of Nanterre has issued an arrest warrant on Landis due to computer hacking at the Chateney-Malabry anti-doping laboratory back in 2006. In the lab samples of Landis´ urine were tested four years ago. “That means he would be arrested if he came to France,” Astrid Granoux, the prosecutor´s spokeswoman from Nanterre office. Landis argued that the lab did ! not carry out the anti-doping test properly and the results cannot be trusted. In the aftermath, Landis was banned from cycling for two years. On the other hand, the lab´s director Pierre Bordry claimed the data stolen from the computer were manipulated so that the lab would seem to have made errors. "It seems that (Landis) made all he could to enter into our computer system to try to prove the laboratory was wrong. He showed many documents he got by hacking to numerous sporting instances," Bordry said. "The judge traced a network of hackers back to the ringleader." A national warrant was issued also for Arnie Baker, Landis´ coach and adviser. "I can't speak for Arnie, but no attempt has been made to formally contact me," Landis said in an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times on Monday. "It appears to be another case of fabricated evidence by a French lab who is still upset a United States citizen believed he should have the right to face his accusers and defend himsel! f." Landis returned back to cycling last February at the Tour ! of Calif ornia. After the discovery of the computer breach the French lab improved its security computer systems.

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