Floyd Landis again accuses Lance Armstrong of using performance-enhancing drugs

Floyd Landis was interviewed on ABC’s “Nightline” in a segment that aired Friday night and reiterated his assertion that he observed fellow cyclist Lance Armstrong use banned performance-enhancing drugs.

In the interview taped in Oregon, where Landis is racing in the Cascade Cycling Classic (he is 78th after the prologue and two stages), Landis said that Armstrong gave him testosterone patches and that he witnessed Armstrong receiving transfusions used for blood doping.

Landis was asked, “Did you see Lance Armstrong receiving transfusions?” Landis answered, “Yes.” When asked if he saw Armstrong do this more than once, Landis answered, “Yes, multiple times.”

A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to several members of the now-defunct U.S. Postal Service cycling team. Landis and Armstrong were on that team.

Armstrong won a record seven Tour de France titles and is racing now in what he says will be his final Tour.

Landis won the Tour in 2006 but had the title stripped after he failed a doping test during that race. Landis vigorously fought the charge but last May admitted that he had used a testosterone patch during that race. He also accused Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, George Hincapie and Dave Zabriskie of engaging in doping.

Asked whether he thought Armstrong’s performances were fraudulent, Landis said, “Well, it depends on what your definition of fraud is. I mean it — look — if he didn’t win the Tour, someone else that was doped would have won the Tour.”

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