Hip surgery in two weeks for Landis

Floyd Landis will undergo hip replacement surgery in two weeks time, before preparing to defend himself against the US Anti-Doping Agency in his doping case. Landis confirmed this in an interview with USA Today's Sal Ruibal, as well as expressing his frustration at the way his affair has been handled by the UCI and WADA.

"I just got the information on the 'A' sample a day and half ago," he said on the weekend. "I had to find out about the 'B' from reading it in the media." The UCI released the news about Landis' A sample on July 27 - a rare, if not unprecedented move from the world's governing body for cycling. Normally a positive drug test would not be made public until the results of both the 'A' and 'B' samples were confirmed positive, protecting the athlete in case the 'B' sample was negative. But news travels like wildfire when there are doping cases, and the UCI was afraid that L'Equipe, which has close ties with the Paris lab that performed the analysis, would receive the results via a leak and publish them anyway.

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