Former teammate of Lance Armstrong, Tyler Hamilton, says Armstrong and other team encouraged, promoted leaders and participate in a doping program to try to win the France Tower in 1999 and beyond, according to a report broadcast Sunday night on "60 Minutes".
Hamilton said that he saw Armstrong taking drugs improved the performance, EPO and testosterone, and saw him also receive a blood transfusion in 2000.
"I feel badly that I had to go here and to do so," Hamilton said in his first public admission of doping throughout his career. "But I think that at the end of the day, as I said, in the long term, the sport is going to be better for it.
In the interview, parties which were released Thursday and Friday on "cbs Evening News", Hamilton revealed observations on the operation of the US Postal team:
-Heads of including doctors and team managers, encouraged and supervised doping;
-Doping was going on within the same before US Postal team that Armstrong has joined in 1998.
-Products to improve performance, the EPO and growth hormone, were given to cyclists in white lunch bags;
-Members of the team were greeted at the airport, ducts hotels, said to lie on the ground and give blood can be transfused in their bodies at a later date.
Long Armstrong has denied doping and has never tested positive.
FILE - in this photo of file on July 25, 1999, winner of the Tour of France Lance Armstrong of the U.S. brandishes the trophy on the podium after the 20th and last stage of the cycling race Tour de France between Paris and Arpajon. Tyler Hamilton, a former teammate of Armstrong, told CBS News that he used drugs improving performance the winner of the Tour of France seven times to cheat in cycling races, including of the tour. Armstrong has firmly refused to doping and never failed a drug test. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, file) CloseOn Sunday, his attorney, Mark Fabiani, has published a statement bashing the CBS report.
"We have already replied in detail to the www.facts4lance.com," said Fabiani. "Throughout along the ce process, CBS showed a serious lack of journalistic fairness and high sensationalism on responsibility." CBS chose to rely on dubious sources while ignoring completely almost 500 independent tests of Lance and hundreds of former team-mates and competitors who have spoken on her work ethic and talent. ?
The "60 Minutes" report unidentified sources used to report that another Armstrong teammate and friend, George Hincapie, testified to the grand jury investigation into doping in cycling that he and Armstrong provided with EPO and mutually discussed having used testosterone to prepare for the races.
Armstrong issued a statement in support of Hincapie Web site: "we are confident that the statements attributed to Hincapie are inaccurate and that the reports of his testimony are unreliable".
Hincapie has released a statement Friday through his lawyer, saying: he did not speak with "60 Minutes" and did not know where the show gets its information.
Hamilton, described in the same time, a systematic program of doping, managed by the Armstrong of US Postal team. He said, it offers the same testimony to the grand jury based in Los Angeles.
Federal prosecutors investigating which essentially have a drug distribution network which was formed to keep teams Armstrong at the head of the Pack.
The revelations of "60 Minutes", combined with recent requests to federal authorities for evidence in France, have fueled a sense of more and more difficulty for most famous cyclist in the world, an international star and a cancer survivor who has raised millions of dollars to fight the disease.
In his interview, Hamilton said that he saw Armstrong using the drug blood-boosting EPO during the Tour of France of 1999 and in preparation for the tours of 2000 and 2001.
Armstrong won race of revered to the more large part of the world each year between 1999 and 2005.
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