Floyd Landis on trial in French hacking case

American cyclist Floyd Landis and a former coach are being tried in absentia in France over allegations that they spearheaded a plot to hack into a French anti-doping laboratory's computers. French court officials say Landis - who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping - and former manager Arnie Baker never replied to summonses for the Paris trial that opened Thursday. They are among five defendants on trial following a sweeping French probe into alleged hacking based on claims the Chatenay-Malabry lab made after intrusions into its computer system. Baker is accused of having asked a consulting firm called Kargus Consultants to hack the lab's computers to try to discredit the doping tests showing Landis doped during the 2006 Tour.