The three-judge arbitration panel that heard the doping case of Floyd Landis this spring has voted 2-1 to uphold the allegation that the American used synthetic testosterone during last year's Tour de France.

The ruling means that Landis faces a two-year ban from professional cycling, retroactive to Jan. 30, 2007, and that he must forfeit his Tour de France championship.

Oddly enough, however, Landis won a major part of his argument about the French lab doing sloppy work, but lost the case.

The panel rejected the results from testosterone-epitestosterone ratio tests ....   more »