May 22, 2007 (Malibu, CA) – Yesterday (Monday) heard testimony from two scientists who discounted the evidence that Floyd Landis doped with synthetic testosterone at the 2006 Tour de France. Landis himself was scheduled to be cross examined on Monday, but this was postponed until Tuesday, May 22.

John Amory, a University of Washington endocrinologist, questioned the reported testosterone to epitestosterone (TE) levels in Landis’ urine. Amory noted that the TE ratios went from 1.5-to-1 and 1.8-to-1 to 11-to-1, then quickly back below 2-to-1 over the span of 10 days. “I don’t consider those results to be consistent with the use of testosterone gel over that period of time,” Amory said. The endocrinologist, based on his review of the literature, also doubted that testosterone would have benefited Landis’ recovery during the TdF, refuting a key point made by a US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) witness, Joseph Papp.

Dr. Wolfram Meier-Augenstein, a Senior Lecturer in Stable Isotope Forensics at Queen’s University Belfast, speaking with a thick German accent, declared that trying to analyze what he said was “sloppy data” was like “shooting fish in a barrel.” He criticized the way that the French anti-doping laboratory (LNDD) performed tests on Landis’ samples, saying he was “baffled,” “amazed,” and “totally confused,” by the “nonsensical results.”

Defence counsel Maurice Suh declined an opportunity to question Meier-Augenstein again after his cross examination, preferring instead to hurry the witness to the airport. For reasons that are not completely clear, Meier-Augenstein was apparently flown by private jet to Washington State so that he could drive to Vancouver Airport in Canada before flying business class back to Ireland rather than flying in or out of the USA. It is rumoured that this arrangement cost the Landis camp some $35,000.

On the list of witnesses for Tuesday are: Floyd Landis and Simon Davis, technical director of British-based Mass Spec Solutions. A press release at www.floydlandis.com dated April 29, suggests that Simon Davis will testify about how critical evidence was erased at the Laboratoire National de Dépistage du Dopage (LNDD) and how existing data bears indication of alteration.

Closing arguments are now scheduled to be completed by Wednesday, May 23.