Lancaster County native Floyd Landis will have to wait more than two months for a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Landis, of Farmersville, now living in California, won the 2006 Tour de France but was stripped of the title last year after arbiters concluded there was evidence of artificial testosterone in a urine sample taken during the race. Landis has always maintained his innocence.
Landis appealed the ruling to the international court. His five-day hearing in New York ended Monday after 35 hours of testimony, the Associated Press reported. The three-arbiter panel heard the case as a “trial de novo” - or a new case. That meant the hearing included much of the same information presented at the U.S. hearing at Pepperdine University last May. The appeal included 14 witnesses and written testimony from 10 others, the AP reported.
Post-hearing submissions from both parties are due April 18. With all that information to weigh, the court announced the arbiters’ decision is not expected before June.
Landis, 32, is now serving a two-year ban from professional cycling. That ban is due to end in late January.
