Feds closing in on Lance Armstrong?
Among SI’s new revelations:
• One of the perks of traveling with Armstrong, former USPS rider Floyd Landis recalls, was frequent trips on private airline charters. Private airports often subject travelers to less stringent customs checks. But Landis tells SI about the day in 2003 that he, Armstrong and team members flew into St. Moritz, where customs officials requested that they open their duffel bags for a search. “Lance had a bag of drugs and s—,” says Landis. “They wanted to search it, which was out of the ordinary.” Sifting through Armstrong’s bag, agents found syringes and drugs with labels written in Spanish. As Landis recounts, Armstrong then asked a member of his contingent to convince the agents that the drugs were vitamins and that the syringes were for vitamin injections. The agents “looked at us sideways,” says Landis, “but let us through.” (Armstrong denies that this incident ever occurred.)
SI reports new information in the case against Lance Armstrong
