Floyd Landis, who this week admitted to doping throughout his cycling career, has reportedly made an apology to three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond.

Landis has apologised to LeMond for an incident during the 2007 hearing at which Landis appealed the cheating charge that saw him stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title.

LeMond was scheduled to testify about a telphone conversation with Landis, in which he believed Landis had admitted using performance enhancing drugs.

On the night before he was to testify, LeMond received an anonymous call threatening to reveal that he had been sexually molested as a child – something he had told Landis in their earlier conversation as a way of demonstrating the destructive power of secrets.