In a inform to air upon Sunday’s ’60 Minutes,’ a Lance Armstrong teammate says he witnessed a seven-time Tour de France champ operate EPO, an unlawful performance-boosting drug.
“I saw it in his refrigerator,” Tyler Hamilton tells publisher Scott Pelley. “I saw him speak up it, some-more than a single time.”
The 39-year-old cancer survivor has regularly denied steroid use, though a allegations sojourn underneath sovereign investigation.
Hamilton claims hold of Armstrong’s doping as distant behind as 1999, a initial year a dear race horse won a Tour de France. Other cyclists have common identical sworn statement with investigators.
Now Armstrong has come out swinging, enlisting a Bill Clinton strategist to launch a latest website, Facts4Lance.com, which disputes a assign which opening enhancers contributed to a athlete’s strange winning streak.
Though a site says Armstrong “has upheld scarcely 500 tests over twenty years of competition,” Hamilton claims Armstrong once confessed to unwell a 2001 exam administered during a Tour de Swiss.
“Everyone would be frustrated” by how CBS treated with colour him, Armstrong tells The Daily Beast in deliberating because he forsaken out of a sit-down with Pelley (who will shortly take over as CBS headlines anchor). The cycling champ says a ’60 Minutes’ writer is not “a loyal shooter…my chronicle of events has never altered upon this, as well as won’t.”
The Armstrong stay claims ’60 Minutes’ refused to hold a accusers’ names in advance. But producers opposite which Armstrong’s lawyers “would theory who it was in a story as well as try to murder their character” as well as yield “all kinds of disastrous things” together with “dark motivation” to disprove any declare accusing him of doping.
“It’s hapless [Lance] won’t do an talk with us,” Jeff Fager, CBS News Chairman, said. “If he never did anything, fine, come upon ’60 Minutes’ as well as discuss it us.”
As for Armstrong’s legions of fans as well as LiveStrong.org members, a Associated Press reports which copiousness sojourn constant to their hero, notwithstanding a scandal. “I do not hold it to be true,” pronounced Raifie Bass, a bicycling air blower as well as cancer survivor. “But if which was a case, it would harm his bequest as a cyclist. But it’s not how most Tours he won or what he’s finished for cycling. It’s what he’s finished for cancer.