"for us [Riis] can no longer be the winner and he has already been wiped from the road book [the official press guide] you will see at the start of the Tour," Prudhomme told the Manchester Guardian. "His name will not be at the top of the page, and below we will put that following his confession he cannot be considered the winner of that Tour."
I think Prudhomme said that Landis' name would also be wiped from the books, no matter what the outcome of his hearing.
"for us [Riis] can no longer be the winner and he has already been wiped from the road book [the official press guide] you will see at the start of the Tour," Prudhomme told the Manchester Guardian. "His name will not be at the top of the page, and below we will put that following his confession he cannot be considered the winner of that Tour."
I think Prudhomme said that Landis' name would also be wiped from the books, no matter what the outcome of his hearing.
Does this mean that Landis won't the first TdF winner in modern times to be stripped of his title? So all the articles that said this might happen were actually wrong?