Floyd Landis, the winner of the 2006 Tour do France, and then failed a drug test, plans to present his defence on his personal blog site.

Part of his defence is that the officials at the World Anti Doping Administration laboratory in France failed to follow the correct protocols with his test samples.

Landis was fired by his Phonak team in August, after he failed the drug test. Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has said he no longer considers Landis the champion.

On July 20 during the Tour de France race Landis had a dramatic and impressive Stage 17 victory during a gruelling mountain stage, when he gained nearly eight minutes on the leader Oscar Pereiro.

Landis was tested twice for testosterone and in both tests the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone was excess of the 4:1 limit. In one test his ratio was 11:1, but his legal team has claimed major mistakes were made in the tests.

“[Landis] wants everything out in the open,” his trainer Baker said “People have been making up their minds about this case since it was leaked [by the international cycling federation] in July … The [USADA] hearing may not happen for a long time, so Floyd felt it was necessary to let the public see everything, to get all the information that they need right now.”

Landis states that the officials at the WADA lab wrote down a urine sample numbers on the testing forms that did not correspond to the Landis’ rider-sample number. They compounded the matter by mot using the correct protocol to correct their initial errors.

Landis spokesman Michael Henson made it clear that Landis is not asserting that the positive sample is not his, only that the lab work was sloppy.

That the “positive” results from the carbon isotope test for testosterone ratio are incorrect because the data indicates that he was out of the acceptable range in only one of four testosterone breakdown products examined. Landis alleges that all four breakdown products must be abnormal for a test to be considered a positive.