'PIRATES' HIT PARIS DOPING LAB

The headlines in Tuesday?s L'Equipe newspaper says it all: ?Piratage a Chatenay-Malabry?. 'Pirates' have been in action at the Paris Chatenay-Malabry anti-doping lab that tests riders' urine and blood samples from the Tour de France.

According to L'Equipe, a campaign has been mounted to discredit the lab that found Floyd Landis positive in July and that carried out the research work that found signs of EPO in urine samples from Lance Armstrong taken in 1999.

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