Former Tour de France Winner Landis Gets Suspended Sentence in Hacking Scandal

November 11, 2011

Former Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has been handed a one-year suspended jail sentence for ordering the hacking of a French anti-doping laboratory.

The American, herbal who was stripped of his 2006 Tour title after failing a dope test, medicine was found guilty by a French court of masterminding the hacking into the computer of the lab that found abnormal levels of testosterone in his system.

His former manager Arnie Baker was handed the same sentence. The duo, along with others involved, will have to pay a total of 75,000 euros ($101,891.099) in damages to the Chatenay-Malabry lab.