(Landis' spokesman) Henson said Landis sent a signed request to the French lab around 12:30 p.m. Eastern yesterday, which was about 6:30 p.m. in Paris. Jose Maria Buxeda, one of Landis’s two Spanish lawyers, told The Associated Press that he had also sent a fax to U.C.I. yesterday afternoon to request that the B sample analysis go forward.
But Pat McQuaid, the president of U.C.I., said last night that the organization never received that request. He said U.C.I. contacted the French lab at 5 p.m. in Paris and that Landis’s request had not yet been received.
McQuaid said U.C.I. then asked the lab to analyze Landis’s B sample, which he said was allowed under the organization’s rules, so the test could be concluded before the lab closed for a two-week vacation this Friday. If the tests cannot be finished before then, the results may not come until late August or early September, he said.