3 Nov 2010

Arrest warrant issued for Floyd Landis

4:04 pm on 3 November 2010

The disgraced American cyclist Floyd Landis and his coach Arnie Baker have been ordered to stand trial in France for computer hacking.

Landis, was stripped of his win in the 2006 Tour de France for doping and an international arrest warrant has been issued.

Both Landis and Baker are suspected of illegally obtaining documentation from the French Anti-Doping Laboratory in a bid to contest the American rider's positive test results from stage 16 of the 2006 Tour de France.

Landis is currently competing in the Tour of Southland.

Landis spent four years, and millions of dollars, in a bid to prove he never cheated to win the world's biggest bike race before confessing.

Landis alleges he and many other former teammates, including seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, had systematically used performancing enhancing drugs for years.