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After months of rancorous, largely unprecedented public debate, the curtains will part today on one of the costliest and most contentious doping cases in sports history.

Landis Seeks Both Vindication and Change 

Tour de France winner Floyd Landis and his legal team will try to dismantle the evidence amassed by anti-doping authorities in France and the United States and persuade a three-man arbitration panel that he did not use testosterone to boost his performance. His hearing at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, Calif., will be open to reporters and spectators in a first of its kind.

Landis' reputation has been on the line since his positive tests for an elevated testosterone level and the presence of a synthetic form of the hormone were reported within days of the trophy ceremony in Paris last July. Since then, the case against him has taken more serpentine turns than any mountain road along the Tour route.

Landis appeared on French television last November to answer questions. The cyclist floundered initially as he offered various explanations for the test results. Then he collected himself. He hired a team of lawyers and public relations specialists and lashed back by attacking the science, procedures, politics and morality underpinning the testing and sanctioning system established under the World Anti-Doping Agency code. He has spent more than $1 million in the effort to clear his name and challenge the anti-doping infrastructure.