CYCLING:A laboratory technician has denied leaking information to French newspaper L'Equipe about Tour de France champion Floyd Landis testing positive for doping.
Cynthia Mongongu, an analytical chemist at Chatenay-Malabry laboratory (LNDD) outside Paris, was asked under cross-examination on Wednesday whether she had spoken to the newspaper after Landis's back-up B samples were re-tested in April.
"Absolutely not," Mongongu told Landis's attorney, Howard Jacobs, on a slow-moving third day of the cyclist's arbitration hearing being held at Pepperdine University in California.
Landis, battling to maintain his 2006 Tour de France title after testing positive for elevated testosterone to epitestosterone levels, has denied using performance enhancing drugs.
His legal team say the French laboratory failed to adhere to "international standards".
