Tyler Hamilton admits doping: Cycling Update
The American born 40-year-old professional cyclist, Tyler Hamilton, out of no-where aired the acceptance of the use of numerous forms of banned substances during his cycling career. This confession is going to be aired on Saturday
in a national television show on May 21, 2011.
The Boulder cyclist denied of the wrong-doing through his two-year ban. Now just after retirement from international sport, he confessed on a national television show recording, on Friday, May 20, 2011 that he and several other dominating
names from the US Postal Service team had used EPO, testosterone and a blood transfusion to enhance performance.
The Massachusetts based cyclist was conditionally investigated by the International Olympic Committee, for doping after the 2004 Athens Olympics. The rider came on top at the Time Trial event of the Olympics claiming the gold. There
were clear symptoms of the use of an endurance-boosting blood transfusion and a strong link with the well-known Spanish doping scandal, Operacion Puerto.
Hamilton appealed twice in-front of the jury, but was turned down and was penalised with a two-year ban from international sport for 2005-2006. He gave a statement to the press after being suspended by the Court of Arbitration for
Sport in 2006, "Now it's official. I'm suspended. An innocent athlete sits at home."
The Vice President of the IOC, Thomas Bach, after this new out-come, told the press that Hamilton has made a strong statement and his statements would be examined thoroughly.
Bach heads most of the IOC’s investigations relating banned substances’ usage. “If there is any need or possibility to take action we will do it,” said Bach. He negated to answer any further on the case saying that he is yet to come
across Hamilton’s statements, but certainly they “will look into this.”
Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia stood second at the same Olympic event. The Russian Olympic Committee appealed to have Hamilton’s Gold given to Ekimov after the ban but was denied by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
With the American cyclist’s admittance to the wrong-doing, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) holds the right to strip him off of his 2004 gold and upgrade his former US Postal Service team-mate Ekimov from silver.
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