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 MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - Floyd Landis spent months crisscrossing the country to explain his defense to anyone who would listen. On Monday, he took his case before the people who can do something about it. Wearing a yellow necktie instead of the yellow jersey earned when he won the Tour de France last year, Landis strode into the law building at Pepperdine University for the start of his long-awaited arbitration hearing.
"I'm excited to get the case under way," he said before the hearing began. "I hope the arbitrators rule fairly and on the facts. I'm confident if they do, I'll retain my title and be racing again."
His mother and father, Arlene and Paul, and his wife, Amber, sat behind the defense table. Before the proceedings began, Arlene Landis stepped to the front of the room to snap a picture of her son and the team of lawyers leading his multimillion-dollar defense.
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