Gatlin hires Landis attorney to reverse suspension
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SALVO, North Carolina  - Disgraced American sprinter Justin Gatlin has retained cyclist Floyd Landis's legal team in a bid to reverse a U.S. arbitration panel's decision to ban him for doping, the attorney told Reuters on Saturday.
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PARIS -- American cyclist Floyd Landis cannot compete in France until 2009 even if he has his two-year doping ban lifted by the sport's highest court.
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US cyclist Tyler Hamilton was suspended from his professional team yesterday and put on notice that his contract would be invalidated if he is found guilty of the drug charges against him.
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-- The attorney for Floyd Landis asked Monday that doping charges be dismissed, hinting for the first time at the Tour de France winner's official defense: that his positive testosterone tests were flawed and did not meet World Anti-Doping Agency standards.
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The decision by the US Anti-Doping Agency comes after the Fort Worth runner&#39;s second positive test for an illegal steroid. The former 400-meter world champion tested positive for the banned drug EPO at a meet in July.
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Justin Gatlin, who is facing a suspension from track and field after testing positive for a synthetic testosterone, participated Tuesday in a 90-minute tryout for the Houston Texans.
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PARIS -- The French anti-doping agency postponed a decision Thursday on whether to suspend Tour de France winner Floyd Landis because of a positive doping test after he agreed not to race in the country this year.
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-- The attorney for Floyd Landis is questioning the accuracy of the positive testosterone tests attributed to the Tour de France winner and asking that doping charges be dismissed.
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The United States Anti-Doping Agency received an important validation when sprinter Michelle Collins, 33, received an eight-year suspension on Friday.
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Arbitrators in the Floyd Landis doping hearing met for the final time this week and declared the hearing officially closed, meaning a decision on the fate of Landis, the 2006 Tour de France winner, must come by Sept. 22.
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Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones's long-time agent has been suspended by USA Track & Field (USATF) for two years after pleading guilty to bank fraud charges, the sport's U.S. governing body said on Friday.
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2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has doping charges against him upheld by American arbitrators.
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PARIS -- The French Anti-Doping Agency will rule Thursday whether to ban Floyd Landis from racing in France for up to two years after his positive doping test at the 2006 Tour de France.
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Floyd Landis, who tested positive for the banned male sex hormone testosterone during his 2006 Tour de France triumph, has been found guilty of doping by a U.S. arbitration panel, CNN said on Thursday.
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Floyd Landis, the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, must forfeit his title and is subject to a two-year ban.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - Olympic 100 meters gold medallist Justin Gatlin has requested an arbitration hearing on doping charges against him, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and Gatlin's attorney said on Thursday.
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Floyd Landis has been officially stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after being found guilty of doping, a cycling source told Reuters on Friday.