The World Anti-Doping Agency can only watch and wait as the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency considers Tour de France champion Floyd Landis' request to have the case against him thrown out, WADA president Dick Pound said Thursday.

"I think we have to wait and see what happens," Pound said in a teleconference from Montreal, where the WADA executive committee will meet on Saturday. "We're kind of a monitoring agency in these things. This is a UCI process.

Pound said that USA Cycling's "procedure is to punt to the national anti-doping agency, which in this case is USADA. USADA will consider the evidence. We watch and see what happens."

On Monday, Landis's attorney Howard Jacobs filed a motion for dismissal with USADA's independent review board challenging the validity of Landis's positive test for unusual levels of testosterone during the Tour. The motion cites blunders by the French lab performing the tests, including a sample number that was not that of Landis on a confirming "B" sample positive.

"The analysis in this case is replete with fundamental, gross errors," Jacobs said.

The motion came three days after hundreds of pages of details about the doping test procedures were received by the American's legal team. Pound, however, pooh-poohed the notion that the laboratory lacked credibility.

"I think you'll see UCI has been quite vociferous in its support of the lab in this case," he said. "These labs aren't accredited unless they are very competent. "I haven't seen all the evidence, that's why we wait to see what USADA and UCI do about it."

Pound said that once USADA completes its procedures, the UCI will be able to intervene if it thinks the decision isn't in accordance with its rules. And under the World Anti-Doping Code, WADA would then have the right to take the matter to arbitration "if we think UCI hasn't dealt with it in accordance with the code."

Pound said he had no idea what the ultimate outcome would be, but he had faith that USADA would consider the evidence carefully.

"Just because you see a whole bunch of excuses put forward by an athlete or people on his or her behalf does not mean you believe an anti-doping authority will roll over and play dead," he said.