Drugs, Epo, dooping: Floyd Landis now says he turned to banned substances during his career and accuses Lance Armstrong to do the same

Having denied for years that he doped in the 2006 Tour, Floyd Landis now says he turned to banned substances during his career and accuses Lance Armstrong to do the same. In the following lines, AS detailing the most significant bits of an e-mail sent Landis Steve Johnson, president of the American Federation of Cycling, on 30 April:

Armstrong and Dr. Ferrari. Regarding the 2002 season, Landis claims that the Italian doctor Michele Ferrari was in charge of supplying EPO to Texas: "Ferrari told him not to take more EPO, because it knew the operation of the new test in place, but did not believe him and continued using it .

The Texan knows how to deal with controls. Landis Armstrong helped to understand the method by which to overcome the checks are positive: "We had long talks when we are in training in which he explained how they were blood transfusions necessary to circumvent the inconvenience of the new test to detect EPO" .

Positive disguise. A real bomb. Landis says Bruyneel ("Who taught me in doping") Armstrong plugged a positive thanks to the then president of the International Cycling Union (UCI), Rik Verbruggen: "I got caught with EPO in the Tour of Switzerland. He and traveled Bruyneel Offices of the UCI and reached an economic agreement with Verbruggen to hide the positive. " Here Landis's argument falters, as it speaks of the 2002 season, and Armstrong did not run this year's Vuelta Switzerland, but in 2001 (which also won).

Guardian of the blood. Referring to 2003, Landis will pick a very special revelation: "I flew to Girona, where I drew blood in the apartment where Armstrong lived. I required to stay there and monitor the temperature of blood every day. I had to confirm that the light not to leave and not spoil the refrigerator where we keep my bag of plasma, Lance and the Hincapie. Armstrong hit my first home I took EPO, Eprex brand. Already in the Tour, I watched Hincapie Lance, Rubiera, and I, we received blood transfusions. "

On the bus. In 2004, the U.S. Postal badly planned program of doping: "We had two transfusions in a flat and on a road in Belgium. The blood was Duffy, the assistant Johan, who was totally paranoid."

Reactions. Finally, Landis as "a joke" the effort to catch cheaters. Pat McQuaid, UCI president rejected his words: "The indictments are not usable without evidence." The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says he is "concerned about the complaint and interested in talking with USADA (the U.S. Agency) and other authorities to open an investigation." For his part, Lance Armstrong abandoned the Tour of California last fall and by Landis answered: "I was surprised and confused. I'm clean. It is their word against ours."