The lawyers for Lance Armstrong's Radio Shack racing team have posted a response to Floyd Landis' accusations that the seven-time Tour de France champion used performance-enhancing drugs.

They also have posted a series of what they say are e-mails from Landis to various officials. Those don't appear to have any overwhelming news, but you can judge for yourself by clicking here.

The attorneys' statement essentially accuses Landis of attempting to blackmail Armstrong. It says, in part:

"Wednesday evening, after not getting what he demanded when no one in cycling capitulated to his numerous but persistent false threats, demands and rants, Floyd Landis publicly aired the false and incredible concoctions he has been privately making for years."

It adds that:

"In leveling these false and baseless accusations, Landis provided selected emails to multiple journalists in connection with his public statements on Wednesday evening. What was not conveyed were descriptions of the threatening text messages from Landis to others, including Lance Armstrong, that began more than two years ago. Mr. Armstrong and others, then, as he has now, told Landis he had nothing to hide and that he was not going to submit to Landis' baseless threats to 'disclose' falsehoods. Lance never has and never will give anyone money, or anything else, to keep them from airing falsehoods."

-- Tom Weir