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Posted: 12:06 PM May 18, 2007
Landis Hearing Takes A Strange Turn
A hearing on the positive doping test of American cycling champion Floyd Landis took a strange turn when cyclist Greg Lemond claimed he was the target of a blackmail attempt.
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(May 18, 2007)--The Floyd Landis hearing has taken a chaotic twist.
Fellow American Tour de France champion Greg LeMond revealed he had been sexually abused as a child and claimed the Landis camp tried to use it as blackmail to keep LeMond from testifying.
LeMond described receiving a call that he said he later traced to the cell phone of Landis' manager, Will Geoghegan.
Procedural bickering ensued.
As the parties were leaving the room for a break, LeMond confronted Geoghegan, but the two didn't exchange blows.
A three-man arbitration panel hearing the testimony will decide whether to uphold Landis' positive doping test after Stage 17 of last year's Tour de France.
If it does, Landis could face a two-year ban from cycling and become the first person in the 104-year history of the Tour to have his title stripped for a doping offense.
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