Affidavit Jean-Pierre Verdy [USADA vs Lance Armstrong October 10, 2012] September 10, 2012
Mr. Jean-Pierre Verdy is Testing Director of the Agence française de lute contre le dopage (AFLD), the French Anti-Doping Agency.
Mr Verdy testified to USADA about a reported anti-doping rule violation committed by the cyclist Lance Armstrong on 17 March 2009 in Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat, France.
On that day a French doping control officer notified Mr. Armstrong to provide a out-of-competition sample. However after the notification Mr. Armstrong went inside his home and came out of the house twenty minutes, after repeated requests by telephone. Hereafter he provided a sample to the doping control officer.
In the AFLD report on the 2009 Tour de France, for which the French agency was given the mandate by the Union Cycliste Internationale to carry out doping control tests, the Astana team, of which Lance Armstrong was a member, benefited from privileged information or timing advantages during doping control tests.