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Landis added: "Nobody from management in cycling ever paid... We gave all kinds of information on USA Cycling being involved, Jim Ochowicz, Steve Johnson the CEO, everyone knew it and was in on it and WADA just refused to do anything about it."... During the federal lawsuit claims emerged that Ochowicz, who was president of USA Cycling's board of directors from 2002 to 2008, had talked with Landis about how Landis should respond to an adverse analytical finding for testosterone during the 2006 Tour de France.
In sworn testimony from the Floyd Landis-U.S. federal government whistleblower lawsuit against him, Lance Armstrong has not only admitted that his Triple Crown win in 1993 and resulting $1 million bonus came about after the rival Coors Light team was paid to let him win, but that longtime U.S. cycling insider and current BMC Racing Team manager Jim Ochowicz orchestrated it.
I think Jim Ochowicz knew precisely what was going along. I think he was a plausible guy, I think people believed him, and I think he's another guy who on the barometer of cynicism would be up there – an eight or a nine out of ten.
