The American cyclist Floyd Landis, stripped of the title in 2006 Tour de France for failing a doping test, has sent a series of emails to international referees and sponsors. The former rider admitted the systematic use of prohibited performance-enhancing substances.
The information provided on Thursday by the Wall Street Journal, says Landis sent three e-mails to seven people, including international referees and sponsors, which refers to the inability of international groups to eliminate doping.
Landis accuses directly Belgian Johan Bruyneel for explaining him in 2002 and 2003, his early years in the U.S. Postal, how to use routinely steroids, synthetic EPO, growth hormone and transfusion practice undetectable in controls.
Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer and Dave Zabriskie appear in three emails. Landis explained how after his hip surgery in 2003 flew to Gerona, where they extracted two and a half liters of blood in three weeks, an amount that would be reused during the Tour de France. The extraction, Landis says, was conducted in Armstrong’s apartment. The bags, including Armstrong’s and Hincapie’s, were kept in a refrigerator and Landis was responsible for controlling the temperature daily.
Landis explains that in moving to Phonak in 2006, told the Swiss owner of the training, Andy Rihs, his desire to continue the program of doping conducted at the U.S. Postal, and he agreed.
Landis spent two years and more than two million dollars to defend against the charges brought against him. Today, like other repentant, has decided to collaborate with the authorities. During the last cyclist has cooperated with the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which has provided information about Armstrong and other cyclists, reports the New York Times. Federal agent Jeff Novitzky, a leader of the operation tip BALCO laboratory in San Francisco, is among the leaders of the investigation.
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