Cycling

Lance Armstrong accuser Floyd Landis wore wire for HGH probe of cycling owner Michael Ball: sources

Nathaniel Vinton New York Daily News 20.12.2010

Floyd Landis wears a wire to help federal investigators look into fashion designer and cycling team owner Michael Ball, according to one source.

Former pro cyclist Floyd Landis, who has accused his sport's biggest hero, Lance Armstrong, of doping, helped the federal government collect potentially incriminating audio and video recordings for its sprawling investigation into doping conspiracies in professional cycling, according to sources close to the case.

Floyd Landis Tells Cameras for First Time: 'I Saw Lance Armstrong Using Drugs' KARLINSKY, ELOISE HARPER, KATIE HINMAN and SALLY HAWKINS ABC News 26.07.2010	Lance Armstrong Says His Tour Is 'Finished' The Wall Street Journal 12.07.2010
On a warm summer's night this week in Bend, Ore., the man at the center of one of the biggest scandals in sports history couldn't have looked more out of place. Floyd Landis was racing his bike in a simple T-shirt -- no fancy cycling jersey. It has been an epic fall from grace for Floyd Landis. But the former Tour de France winner's biggest surprise wasn't the disgrace of losing his Tour title -- or of being banned from the sport he loves as a drug cheat. It was the decision to come clean about his own doping and make sweeping accusations against others, including one of the biggest names in all of sport, Lance Armstrong.	Lance Armstrong said his hopes of Tour de France victory are finished after he struggled in the Alps and was caught up in three crashes during an eighth stage won by Andy Schleck of Luxembourg on Sunday.
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Tour de France bikes to be scanned for motors Breitbart.com 19.06.2010	Electric bikes? Call for checks at Tour de France [VIDEO] SAMUEL PETREQUIN Yahoo! News 04.06.2010
Bikes used at the Tour de France will be scanned to make sure they do not contain illegal motors, the International Cycling Union (UCI) announced on Friday.	French cycling team chief Alain Deloeil called for checks at the Tour de France to ensure that racers are not cheating by using motors hidden in their bike frames.
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Armstrong opts to ride 2009 Tour BBC 02.12.2008	Armstrong rejects French offer of 1999 sample re-test Mark Lamport-Stokes Reuters 02.10.2008
Lance Armstrong will attempt to win the Tour de France for an eighth time after confirming he will compete in the 2009 race.	LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has dismissed as irrelevant an offer by an anti-doping authority to test his urine samples from the 1999 race.
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Armstrong comes back with an agenda Christopher Clarey IHT 26.09.2008	Tour de Thailand 2008 Charity Ride 23.09.2008
Has there ever been a comeback quite like the one Lance Armstrong officially began on Wednesday in the company of world leaders and fellow celebrity activists Bono and Al Gore?	Our 6th Annual Tour de Thailand Charity Ride is coming up this December and there are still spots available for riders to join. It's not a race, it's a long distance fun ride the length of Thailand.
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