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Posted on January 25, 2008
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Anonymous cyclist sues USADA
By Steve Medcroft
The Associated Press reported on Friday that an unnamed cyclist filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeking an injunction to prevent USADA from testing a backup urine sample the agency took during the 2006 racing season even though, as the suit claims, the A sample for the rider returned a negative result.
Since international rules dictate that an athlete can only be considered to have returned a sanctionable positive doping test if both the A and B sample return positive results, the suit claims that the order of a B test following a negative A test amounts to harrassment of the rider.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of ‘John Doe’ by the same legal team that represented Floyd Landis in his doping case before USADA, is asking for a jury trial to recoup damages the cyclist claims he suffered when USADA notified race organizers and a testing lab that the rider was under suspicion of doping.
Landis is reported to have told the Associated Press that he is not the plaintiff in the suit levaing the identity of the rider, and the race from which the testing was ordered, a mystery.
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‘John Doe’ identified in USADA lawsuit
One day after reports that an anonymous rider was suing the United States Anti-doping Agency, wire reports have identified the aggrieved cyclist as Rock Racing rider Kayle Leogrande. According to the Associated Press, unnamed sources identified the 30-year-old as the athlete who sued the agency to block testing of a ‘B’ sample.
The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles, claimed that USADA was violating its own rules by ordering the testing of the rider’s ‘B’ sample even though the ‘A’ sample was declared negative. The identity of the athlete was blocked from the public.
Because the lawyers hired by the plaintiff were the same high-powered attorneys, Maurice Suh and Howard Jacobs, hired by Floyd Landis, there had been speculation that Landis was the rider in question, but multiple reports have named Leogrande as the unnamed cyclist. Neither USADA general counsel Bill Bock nor Suh were able to comment.
The AP article went on to claim that the urine samples in question were taken at the International Cycling Classic, also known as Superweek, in Wisconsin last July, where Leogrande won three stages and finished second overall.
oh no….poor guy….;-)
Could you go to jail for that? Like Jones, the track girl?
Were does some one like Kayle Leogrande get that can
of cash for lawyers like Maurice Suh and Howard Jacobs. I’ve read that they get $300.00 to $400.00 a hour. I would think thats the bigger story.