Steven de Jongh and Bobby Jullich should be allowed back in Team Sky, Tyler Hamilton
In wake of Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal, all the professional cycling teams have stricken their anti-doping policies to ensure that their side is clean of the doping abuse.
Publisher of the book “the secret race”, Tyler Hamilton has noted that Team Sky is a way too hard on its staff members and should let its former associates, Steven de Jongh and Bobby Jullich back on the side.
"I get what they [Team Sky] are trying to do," he noted.
"But there are a lot of people who are good for the sport who got caught up in the wrong thing. It was a dark, dark culture back then”.
After being in and out of the game several times, Hamilton finally admitted doping on May 20, 2011 in an email send to his friends.
He also recorded a video for the TV news show, 60 Minutes in which he also connected Lance Armstrong with the doping scandal.
Hamilton also testified that Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs during his professional career, and his book really helped USADA in building a strong case against Lance.
However, Armstrong is still in denial even after 26 cyclists have testified against him, including 11 of his former teammates.
The 41-year-old used systematic doping in his previous side, Team US Postal to achieve the desired results and kept doing it unnoticed for more than a decade.
He was tested several times, but even the doping tests taken by the UCI could not prove the American guilty, as he seemed to have answers of all the questions but Armstrong was stunned after the USADA’s 1000 page report with recorded testimony of his former
teammates.
Hamilton noted that he went through the same stage but eventually confessed his wrongdoings and his former Team USPS teammate will finally admit it too.
"He's still denying the past and that picture saddens me, Hamilton said in an interview with Telegraph Sport”.
“He's most likely going through a similar process that I went through. Maybe he's reflecting on the whole situation now”.
“I think he's probably spending a lot of time thinking about it and you know it's got to be tearing him up inside".
Hamilton stated that almost 80% of the peloton has used doping somewhere in their career and everyone should be given a second chance, some believe it to be Tyler’s sympathies with the sport whereas, other think it merely as a publicity stunt to market his
book.
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