Latest on Landis: International Agencies Have 'Agenda'

Landis has just made his first public comments since his press conference July 28th, saying that he believes, according to the AP, that "there's a conspiracy against him by cycling's governing body and that he can't properly defend himself against charges he used performance enhancing drugs during his Tour de France win."  The UCI and WADA, during this whole affair, have not followed their regulations, where the results of the doping tests have been leaked to the press before Landis had been notified.  According to Floyd, he only saw the actual A sample results "a day and a half ago" and he found out about the B sample "from reading it in the media."  According to Landis:

I've been catching a lot of grief in the press: 'Floyd has a new excuse, a new reason for what happened.' This is a situation where I'm forced to defend myself in the media. It would never have happened if UCI and WADA had followed their own rules.  There's some kind of agenda there. I just don't know what it is.

Landis also defended his teammates, saying that there was "zero chance" that someone from Phonak gave him synthetic testosterone by chance or accident.

Finally, Floyd is addressing the problems of this whole story, that the lab, the UCI, and WADA have been breaking all of their rules regarding notification of the athlete.  There might be chance that Floyd's sanctions get tossed away on technicalities like with Tyler Hamilton's hermatocrit levels during the Olympics: no B sample testing, no doping.  Team Landis had known for over a year that he would need the hip replacement surgery, even Dave Zabriskie kept it a secret, so it seems they knew how to handle the media.  What I couldn't understand was why Floyd's inner circle could hold a press conference on his necrotic hip before the story was leaked to the press, but he couldn't get a handle on the test results.  Now we're beginning to understand why.  The rest of the world heard the story, and how it was spun, even before Landis did.  As I've written before, "if we can't trust the cyclists, or even the doping controls, these circumstances just make all of endurance sports pointless."