The doping trial of 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has provoked more than the usual celebrity-trial interest, in part because of the bizarre behavior of some of the people involved. But a serious part of Landis' defense is attacking the chromatography testing methods that yielded results indicating use of banned substances — specifically, testosterone.
As of the trial's seventh day, the defense claimed that the testing lab's methods were not transparent enough to allow outside experts to believe the accuracy of the results.
Cycling News (how often do you find that publication listed here?) has day-by-day coverage of the trial.
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