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    Floyd Landis provides a detailed account of doping activities he engaged in and witnessed from 2002 to 2006 while riding for the US Postal Service cycling team. These activities include receiving testosterone patches and blood transfusions, as well as instructions on using EPO, human growth hormone, and testosterone from team directors and doctors. Landis states he personally witnessed several riders, including Lance Armstrong, receiving blood transfusions. He describes storing blood in a refrigerator in Armstrong's apartment and being asked to monitor it. Landis looks forward to sharing more details if USA Cycling demonstrates it can be trusted to properly handle the allegations.

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    Floyd Landis provides a detailed account of doping activities he engaged in and witnessed from 2002 to 2006 while riding for the US Postal Service cycling team. These activities include receiving testosterone patches and blood transfusions, as well as instructions on using EPO, human growth hormone, and testosterone from team directors and doctors. Landis states he personally witnessed several riders, including Lance Armstrong, receiving blood transfusions. He describes storing blood in a refrigerator in Armstrong's apartment and being asked to monitor it. Landis looks forward to sharing more details if USA Cycling demonstrates it can be trusted to properly handle the allegations.

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    Floyd Landis provides a detailed account of doping activities he engaged in and witnessed from 2002 to 2006 while riding for the US Postal Service cycling team. These activities include receiving testosterone patches and blood transfusions, as well as instructions on using EPO, human growth hormone, and testosterone from team directors and doctors. Landis states he personally witnessed several riders, including Lance Armstrong, receiving blood transfusions. He describes storing blood in a refrigerator in Armstrong's apartment and being asked to monitor it. Landis looks forward to sharing more details if USA Cycling demonstrates it can be trusted to properly handle the allegations.

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    Floyd Landis provides a detailed account of doping activities he engaged in and witnessed from 2002 to 2006 while riding for the US Postal Service cycling team. These activities include receiving testosterone patches and blood transfusions, as well as instructions on using EPO, human growth hormone, and testosterone from team directors and doctors. Landis states he personally witnessed several riders, including Lance Armstrong, receiving blood transfusions. He describes storing blood in a refrigerator in Armstrong's apartment and being asked to monitor it. Landis looks forward to sharing more details if USA Cycling demonstrates it can be trusted to properly handle the allegations.

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    FLOYD LANDIS’ LETTER

    TO THE UCI AND USA CYCLING

    TYPED BETWEEN APRIL 30-MAY 6, 2010

    2002: I was instructed on how to use Testosterone patches by Johan Bruyneel during the During the

    Dauphine Libere in June, after which I flew on a helicopter with Mr Armstrong from the finish, I believe

    Grenoble, to San Mauritz Switzerland at which point I was personally handed a box of 2.5 mg patches in

    front of his wife who witnessed the exchange. About a week later, Dr Ferrari performed an extraction of

    half a liter of blood to be transfused back into me during the Tour de France. Mr Armstrong was not

    witness to the extraction but he and I had lengthy discussions about it on our training rides during which

    time he also explained to me the evolution of EPO testing and how transfusions were now necessary

    due to the inconvenience of the new test. He also divulged to me at that time that in the first year that

    the EPO test was used he had been told by Mr Ferrari, who had access to the new test, that he should

    not use EPO anymore but he did not believe Mr Farrari and continued to use it. He later, while winning

    the Tour de Swiss, the month before the Tour de France, tested positive for EPO at which point he and

    Mr Bruyneel flew to the UCI headquarters and made a financial agreement with Mr. Vrubrugen to keep

    the positive test hidden.

    2003: After a broken hip in the winter, I flew to Gerona Spain where this time two units (half a liter

    each) were extracted three weeks apart. This took place in the apartment in which Mr. Armstrong lived

    and in which I was asked to stay and check the blood temperature every day. It was kept in a

    small refrigerator in the closet along with the blood of Mr Armstrong and George Hincapie and since

    Mr. Armstrong was planning on being gone for a few weeks to train he asked me to stay in his place and
    make sure the electricity didn't turn off or something go wrong with the refrigerator. Then during the

    Tour de France the entire team, on two different occasions went to the room that we were told and the

    doctor met us there to do the transfusions. During that Tour de France I personally witnessed George

    Hincapie, Lance Armstrong, Chechu Rubiera, and myself receiving blood transfusions. Also during that

    Tour de France the team doctor would give my room mate, George Hincapie and I a small syringe of

    olive oil in which was dissolved andriol, a form of ingestible testosterone on two out of three nights

    throughout the duration.

    I was asked to ride the Vuelta a Espana that year in support of Roberto Heras and in August, between

    the Tour and the Vuelta, was told to take EPO to raise my hematocrit back up so more blood

    transfusions could be performed. I was instructed to go to Lances place by Johan Bruyneel and get some

    EPO from him. The first EPO I ever used was then handed to me in the entry way to his building in full

    view of his then wife. It was Eprex by brand and it came in six pre measured syringes. I used it

    intravenously for several weeks before the next blood draw and had no problems with the tests during

    the Vuelta. Also during this time it was explained to me how to use Human Growth Hormone by Johan

    Bruyneel and I bought what I needed from Pepe the team "trainer" who lived in Valencia along with the

    team doctor at that time. While training for that Vuelta I spent a good deal of time training with

    Matthew White and Michael Barry and shared the testosterone and EPO that we had and discussed the

    use thereof while training.

    Again, during the Vuelta we were given Andriol and blood transfusions by the team doctor and had no

    problems with any testing.

    2004: Again the team performed two separate blood transfusions on me, but this time Bruyneel had

    become more paranoid and we did the draws by flying to Belgium and meeting at an unknown persons
    apartment and the blood was brought by "Duffy" who was at that time Johans assistant of sorts. The

    second of which was performed on the team bus on the ride from the finish of a stage to the hotel

    during which the driver pretended to have engine trouble and stopped on a remote mountain road for

    an hour or so so the entire team could have half a liter of blood added. This was the only time

    that I ever saw the entire team being transfused in plain view of all the other riders and bus driver. That

    team included Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie and I as the only Americans.

    2005: I had learned at this point how to do most of the transfusion technicals and other things on my

    own so I hired Allen Lim as my assistant to help with details and logistics. He helped Levi Leipheimer and

    I prepare the transfusions for Levi and I and made sure they were kept at the proper temperature. We

    both did two separate transfusions that Tour however my hematocrit was too low at the start so I did

    my first one a few days before the start so as to not start with a deficit.

    2006: Well you get the idea....... One thing of great significance is that I sat down with Andy Riis and

    explained to him what was done in the past and what was the risk I would be taking and ask for his

    permission which he granted in the form of funds to complete the operation described. John Lelangue

    was also informed by me and Andy Riis consulted with Jim Ochowitz before agreeing.

    There are many many more details that I have in diaries and am in the process of writing into an

    intelligible story but since the position of USA Cycling is that there have not been enough details shared

    to justify calling USADA, I am writing as many as I can reasonably put into an email and share with you

    so as to ascertain what is the process which USA Cycling uses to proceed with such allegations.

    Look forward to much more detail as soon as you can demonstrate that you can

    be trusted to do the right thing. - Floyd Landis

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