New doping charges against Lance Armstrong
In an account accepted to CBS, the American television approach will advertisement Sunday on his affairs "60 minutes", controlled, American agent absolute on several occasions, put an end to years of denial, but stresses the actuality that he was not alone.
He said he saw Lance Armstrong, its baton at the time, to inject himself with doping articles during the 1999 Tour of France, year of the aboriginal achievement of the American on the Grand loop.
"(Armstrong) has taken that we accept all made." (...) "There was the EPO (erythropoietin), testosterone, claret transfusion", said Tyler Hamilton in an extract from the account appear by CBS.
"I saw of EPO in his refrigerator." "I accept apparent him inject added than once, as we all have, as I accept done abounding times."
Lance Armstrong, one champ of seven after editions of the Tour, from 1999 to 2005, has consistently denied to be doped, and has never undergone absolute ascendancy although it has faced abundant allegations.
Interviewed by Reuters, his advocate Mark Fabiani absolved statements by Tyler Hamilton, accusing him of aggravating to accomplish advertising.
"Hamilton is actively gluttonous to acquire money by autograph a book and it has absolutely afflicted the news that he had consistently delivered ahead to be able to canyon in '60 minutes' and access its affairs with publishers", he said. "But the acquisitiveness and ache of announcement may not change the facts: Lance Armstrong is the added controlled amateur in the history of the sport."
Former champion himself made the same argument on his Twitter account: "+ 20 year career." 500 controls in the world, competition or outside. Never a positive control. "This is what I have to say."
The Union cycliste International (UCI) said learned the matter Friday by the press. "Only Messrs. Hamilton and Armstrong are empowered to speak on this subject," said his spokesman Enrico Carpani.
Tyler Hamilton was Armstrong in the US Postal teammate in the first three victories of the Texan on the tower.
He decided to confide after having been summoned as a witness before a grand jury investigating other charges against Armstrong launched by another former teammate Floyd Landis, winner of the Tour 2006 and deprived of his title after a positive test.
"I had a sense of relief as never before", Hamilton wrote in a letter to his friends and his family.
Tyler Hamilton, now 40 years old, has been champion Olympic of against-shows at the Athens Games in 2004. He was allowed to retain his gold despite a positive control, because the B sample had been accidentally destroyed by the responsible for the testing laboratory.
The following year, he had suffered a new positive control for a blood transfusion and suspended for two years.
In 2006, he has been linked to affair Puerto", a Spain doping scandal, before be controlled positive to steroids three years later and sentenced to eight years of suspension
