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LONDON -- The World Anti-Doping Agency has spent more than $1 million helping fight the appeal by Floyd Landis of the decision stripping him of the 2006 Tour de France title for a doping offense.
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WADA president John Fahey said Monday that the organization has contributed $1.3 million -- 5 percent of its total budget of $26 million -- to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's case against the American cyclist.
In a conference call with reporters, Fahey said he and WADA director general David Howman would meet next month with Mino Auletta, president of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. They planned to discuss how to cope with the high legal costs of cases like those of Landis, particularly whether the party at fault should be held responsible.
WADA said it agreed to offer financial support to the U.S. agency for the Landis hearing after cycling's governing body, the International Cycling Union, refused.
USADA has already spent well into six figures to prosecute Landis, who lost his Tour title in September after a U.S. arbitration panel ruled he used performance-enhancing substances during his 2006 victory.
A five-day appeal hearing before CAS was held in New York in March. A decision is not expected before June.
On other issues, Fahey said an unspecified number of countries and international sports federations have not yet complied with the World Anti-Doping Code, which sets out drug-testing rules and sanctions across all sports and nations.
Under IOC rules, any sport that doesn't comply with the code risks being dropped from the Olympics.
Fahey, who replaced Dick Pound as WADA president this year, declined to say which bodies or how many had not implemented the code. He said they will be identified in November when a full report is made to WADA.
Fahey also said WADA's executive committee had agreed on a document for an information-sharing agreement with Interpol to boost cooperation in exposing international drug-trafficking networks.
The international police body had pulled out a planned agreement with WADA last November, months after proposing a collaboration.
Fahey said he expects the agreement to be ratified by Interpol later this year.
