Floyd Landis, winner of this year's Tour de France and currently preparing the trial of his doping case, will release all the information which makes up his defense on his personal website this week, according to USA Today. The key points of his probable defense against charges he illegally used doping products to win the race were outlined in a PowerPoint presentation, which Landis intends to make public in the coming days, together with 300 pages of documentation.
As one of the key points of his defense, Landis will argue that the analysis work performed by French Anti-Doping laboratory in Châtenay-Malabry was sloppy. While he did not contest that the positive sample was indeed his own, Landis will emphasize that officials made mistakes in filling out the testing forms with his urine sample number. The incorrect number was covered over with correction fluid, and Landis' number was overwritten, while WADA testing protocol actually requires that any corrections should be done "with a single line through and the change should be initialed and dated by the individual making the change." That was not done on Landis' test form.
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