Cycling
Landis' appeal is dismissed
Monday, 30 June 2008The Court of Arbitration for Sport have dismissed Floyd Landis' appeal to regain the 2006 Tour de France title and upheld his two-year drugs ban.
Landis was stripped of the title - which passed to Spaniard Oscar Pereiro - and handed a two-year ban from the sport after testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone.
CAS' verdict sees the 32-year-old disqualified from the 2006 race and banned from cycling for two years from January 30, 2007. He has also been ordered to pay $100,000 to the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
