IOC could deprive Tyler Hamilton of Olympic gold

 The International Olympic Committee could deprive Tyler Hamilton of his cycling gold medal after the admission of doping in 2004 American, President of Vice President of the IOC Thomas Bach told Associated Press on Friday.

Bach, said that the Committee would consider the statements of Hamilton that he doped throughout his career.

In an interview with "60 Minutes", Hamilton has admitted that it that doped and said Lance Armstrong did as well.

"If there is no necessity or the possibility of taking measures we will do," said Bach, who leads most of the IOC anti-doping investigations.

Bach, said that he has not seen the statements of Hamilton still but "we look on this."

The IOC may deprive retroactively Olympic medals if the evidence of doping emerged more later or an athlete admits to cheating. The IOC removed Marion Jones five medals from the Sydney 2000 games after she admitted using performance-enhancing drugs.

The IOC had provisionally investigated Hamilton for doping after winning the Gold Medal of the trial of time in the Olympic Games in Athens.

Initial testing at the Athens Games has been suggested that the U.S. had received a transfusion of blood of endurance - boost. But the case was dropped after his backup sample was frozen by mistake, leaving too few red blood cells to analyze.