In a series of detailed emails sent by Floyd Landis, the former team-mate of Lance Armstrong, Landis accused Armstrong of making use of performance boosting drugs.

Landis sent an email to Stephen Johnson, the president of USA Cycling, alleging that Johan Bruyneel, Armstrong’s team director since 1999, told him how to make use of steroid patches, human growth hormone, and blood doping without getting detected.

From Guardian.co.uk:

In emails sent to seven cycling officials, Landis is reported to have admitted using the banned blood booster Erythropoietin (EPO), as well as steroids, human growth hormone, testosterone and blood transfusions, from 2002 onwards.

Landis said he wanted to speak out before the World Anti-Doping Agency’s eight-year statute of limitations for doping offences comes into force. “Now we’ve come to the point where the statute of limitations on the things I know is going to run out or start to run out next month,” Landis said. “If I don’t say something now then it’s pointless to ever say it.”

Landis, who was brought up in a strict Mennonite community in Pennsylvania, won the 2006 Tour de France but tested positive for high levels of testosterone and was stripped of the title. He protested his innocence and fought a lengthy and costly campaign before losing his case and serving a two-year suspension. He returned to racing last year, riding for the US team OUCH.

Armstrong has always denied doping and has never been tested positive or sanctioned by the cycling authorities despite repeated allegations.

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Floyd Landis, a former teammate of cycling champion Lance Armstrong for three years, is persuading other riders to confess to doping, as per the New York Times. Landis has been struggling to resurrect his career after he was tested positive for testosterone after his win at the 2006 Tour de France.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) welcomed admission of Landis that he used a cocktail of doping products such as steroids, growth hormone, and EPO after four long years of denials.

From Guardian.co.uk:

With Landis so far the only witness to his allegations, it is this question that seems likely to hamper any investigation. The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) welcomed the 34-year-old’s admission, after four years of denials, that he used a cocktail of doping products and methods, including EPO, growth hormone, steroids and blood-doping, from 2002, the year he joined Armstrong’s US Postal team.

Wada also pledged to look into his allegations concerning Armstrong and others, and a federal investigation remains a possibility, with reports that Jeff Novitzky, who helped expose Marion Jones and others in the Balco case, has interviewed Landis.

The reaction of Wada and the US Food and Drug Administration – for whom Novitzky is an agent – stood in stark contrast to that of the International Cycling Union (UCI), with the world governing body’s president, Pat McQuaid, quick to dismiss Landis as “a guy seeking revenge”, and claiming that his allegations followed a failed attempt to “blackmail” the Tour of California organisers into inviting his new team.

Late last night, the affair took a surreal twist with Armstrong’s decision to publish private emails allegedly sent by Landis to Messick and others, which – claimed an accompanying statement – “reveals a troubling, angry and misplaced effort at retribution by Landis for his perceived slights”.

Pat McQuaid, the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), dismissed Landis as “a guy seeking revenge”.

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This is the question posed by the non-profit organization in their new website http://sports.procon.org.

ProCon.org is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) public charity whose mission statement reads: “Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan primarily pro-con format.”

Their latest online project contains nearly 30 questions about the use of drugs in sports.

PR News lists some of the topics for some heated discussion on the Web:

* Tiger Woods‘ alleged LASIK surgery to improve his vision to 20/15 is ethically different than an athlete taking a banned substance

* there is a correlation between the 5% (approximate) of middle schoolers who take anabolic steroids and the use of such substances by their athlete role models

* the testing labs, such as the one that found cyclist Floyd Landis guilty of using banned drugs, are credible and reliable

* the teammates of sprinter Marion Jones should return their Olympic gold medals. None of them tested positive for banned drugs although Jones confessed to having used them.

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