Department of Weird and Weirder: Floyd Landis is a Hacker?

An international judge has issued an arrest warrant for Floyd Landis, best known as not-Lance-Armstrong. The case involves computer hacking at a doping lab in France. The judge wants to question Landis about hacking dating back to 2006, according to ESPN. This is the lab that uncovered the elevated testosterone levelsin Landis’ samples and was thus responsbile for stripping him of his 2006 medal, by the way.

Interestingly, the hacked files came to the attention of the lab and the judiciary because Landis himself told them…when he tried to use them in his defense in a hearing about the doping. He claimed his files had been altered, causing people in the know to check the computer trail. And, in fact, they had.
As Homer Simpson once said, d’oh!

Landis, who is still cycling, says he has not yet been served with a warrant. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. but we’re entering definite Movie of the Week territory, here….

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