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Judge issues arrest warrant against Floyd Landis

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An arrest warrant has been issued by a judge against U.S. cyclist Floyd Landis after French anti-doping authorities accused him of hacking into one of their laboratory computers.

Pierre Bordry, the president of France’s anti-doping agency, told Reuters that a French judge issued an arrest warrant against Landis on Jan. 28 after ‘our laboratory computer system was hacked.’

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Landis, 34, was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory after testing positive for high levels of testosterone. The samples were analyzed by the Chatenay-Malabry laboratory.

Landis’ appeal over the decision was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

[Updated at 9:57 a.m.: Bordry says Judge Thomas Cassuto wants to question Landis about his connection to a computer hacking incident that occurred at the Chatenay-Malabry lab in September 2006. Bordry claims Landis presented documents during his appeal process that were taken from the lab’s computers.]

We’ll have more on this development later at latimes.com/sports.

[FOR THE RECORD, 12:11 p.m.: An earlier version of this post described the warrant issued against Landis as an international warrant. A French court spokesperson said the warrant applies only to French territory.]

-- Austin Knoblauch

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