LeMond said he received an anonymous phone call on Wednesday evening that came from a number that he traced to the phone of Landis' friend and manager, Will Geoghegan.

"I think he didn't want me coming here," LeMond told reporters as he left the Pepperdine University Law School building after testifying before a panel of three arbitrators.

The 1986, '89 and '90 Tour de France winner was asked by USADA lawyer Matthew Barnett about a phone call he received from Landis last August 6 after news of the positive result of Landis' "A" sample had been leaked to the media.

Landis, who has denied cheating, confronted LeMond about remarks made to reporters, and although LeMond was careful not to accuse Landis, he urged him to "come clean" if the charge was true.

"His response was: 'What good would it do?'" LeMond said of Landis.

"He said he didn't see that anything good would come out of this.

"'If I did, it would destroy a lot of friends and a lot of people,'" LeMond said Landis told him.

Sexual abuse secret

LeMond revealed that, as a warning against the corrosive power of keeping such a secret, he shared with Landis the fact that he (LeMond) had been sexually abused in his youth and that keeping that secret "nearly destroyed me."

"I shared this with him with the idea that he might see what keeping a secret would do," LeMond said.

LeMond then testified that he was "very upset" when on Wednesday night the anonymous caller told him, "Greg, this is your uncle...  I'll be there tomorrow and we can talk about how we used to 'Hide your weenie.'"

"I got the picture right away," LeMond said.

"I figured this was an effort at intimidation."

LeMond later said that
, who was sitting with other Landis supporters behind the defense team's table in the small courtroom housing the hearing, "admitted that he called me and tried to apologize."

Business terminated

Landis' manager Will Geoghegan was alleged to have intimidated LeMond by phone [AFP]

Speaking for the record after LeMond left the witness stand, Suh told the arbitrators that as of that moment, any business relationship between Landis and Geoghegan was terminated.

"He had served in the capacity as business manager at times prior to today," Suh said.

"I'm still not sure exactly what the status was as of the last minute, but we have decided to terminate all business relationships between Mr Landis and Mr Geoghegan as of today, as of right now."

No answers on Armstrong

LeMond's ensuing cross-examination by Landis lawyer Howard Jacobs was cut short as LeMond declined to answer questions regarding his role in an arbitration involving another former Tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong.

Jacobs said that if he couldn't pursue that line of questioning, which he said was directly related to LeMond's motives, he moved to strike LeMond's testimony entirely.

The arbitrators allowed the cross-examination to proceed.

However, with LeMond attorney Bruce Manning continuing to advise his client not to answer questions regarding Armstrong, the seven-time Tour champion who has vociferously battled unproven doping allegations, the cross-examination was halted.

Errors in testing

Professor Christiane Ayotte, Director of the Montreal WADA accredited laboratory [AFP]

Frelate admitted she made some mistakes in running the instruments during her processing of the urine sample that required her to stop and relaunch the process, and also testified that she knew she was testing Landis' sample.

Christiane Ayotte, the director of the World Anti-Doping Agency accredited laboratory in Montreal, testified that in her opinion the documents she had reviewed on the case "support the result that was reached."

Under cross-examination by Jacobs, Ayotte insisted it was not unusual for lab technicians to stop and re-start the instruments if they saw a glitch in the proceedings.