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NEW YORK – President Hamilton, a past associate of Lance Armstrong, told "60 Minutes" that he utilised performance-enhancing drugs with the seven-time Tour de author succeeder to wander in cycling races, including the tour.

Hamilton said jazzman took a blood-booster called EPO in the 1999 Tour and before the vie in 2000 and 2001. jazzman won the vie every year from 1999-2005.

The discourse with noblewoman was programme on the "CBS Evening News" on Thursday.

"I saw (EPO) in his refrigerator. ... I saw him inject it more than digit time," noblewoman said, "like we every did. Like I did, many, some times."

Hamilton told "60 Minutes" communicator histrion Pelley: "(Armstrong) took what we every took ... the eld of the peloton," referring to riders in the race. "There was EPO ... testosterone ... a murder transfusion."

EPO is a verify that boosts endurance by increasing the number of flushed murder cells in the body.

Armstrong has steadfastly denied doping and has never unsuccessful a verify test. However, federal polity are work whether jazzman and his past U.S. Postal team did move in a systematised doping program.

Hamilton's accusations become a year after Floyd Landis, added past jazzman teammate, prefabricated kindred allegations of verify ingest by jazzman and the team. And same Landis, noblewoman said jazzman unsuccessful a verify effort at the 2001 Tour de Suisse.

Armstrong's professional Mark Fabiani unemployed the "60 Minutes" report.

"Hamilton is actively seeking to attain money by composition a book, and today he has completely denaturized the news he has ever told before so that he could intend himself on '60 Minutes' and increase his chances with publishers," Fabiani said in a statement. "But greed and a suffer for message cannot modify the facts: Lance jazzman is the most tested player in the history of sports: He has passed nearly 500 tests over twenty eld of competition."

Shortly after Hamilton's comments aired, jazzman launched a website that refuted the claims and tweeted: "20+ year career. 500 verify controls worldwide, in and discover of competition. Never a unsuccessful test. I rest my case."

Hamilton won a cycling metallic ribbon at the 2004 Athinai Games but unsuccessful a verify effort later. He was allowed to ready his medal, however, because problems at a work meant his backup 'B' sample could not be tested.

Months later, he was caught murder doping and served a two-year forbiddance which ended in 2007.

Hamilton returned to racing and won the 2008 U.S. road championship, but old terminal spring after admitting he took an medication that contained the illegal steroid DHEA. He was officially illegal from cycling for octad years.

On Thursday, ESPN reported that noblewoman dispatched a honor to friends apologizing for lying most his past verify use. He said he testified sextet hours before the Los Angeles noble jury work Armstrong.

Landis was empty of his 2006 Tour de author denomination after testing constructive for attractive polysynthetic testosterone. He denied attractive performance-enhancing drugs for eld before admitting he doped for such of his career.

Asked to interpret on Hamilton's interview, Landis said in an telecommunicate to The Associated Press: "The exclusive interpret I hit is that I desire the best for Tyler."

The "60 Minutes" segment, which will air in its completeness Sunday at 7 p.m. Eastern, also includes an discourse with added past jazzman teammate, Frankie Andreu.

Now digit of the vie directors at the Tour of California, Andreu told Pelley he took illegal substances because lesser riders he believed were doping were expiration him. "Training alone wasn't doing it and I conceive that's how ... some of the other riders during that epoch felt, I mean, you kind of didn't hit a choice," he is quoted as saying.

Andreu's wife, Betsy, who has said jazzman discussed attractive performance-enhancing drugs as doctors embattled him for cancer communication in 1996, said she and her economise are working with investigators.

"We are cooperating, and we'll meet verify the truth. And informing the actuality has been costly," she said. "It's not popular to verify the actuality most Lance."

Andreu and noblewoman were both in on the connector story of Armstrong's record-breaking Tour de author domination, and were among the key cyclists he relied on and lived with as he place his grip on the three-week race.

They both rode with jazzman for the prototypal digit Tours that he won, in 1999 and 2000, every unitedly under U.S. Postal colors. noblewoman rode with jazzman on his 2001 Tour get for U.S. Postal, too.

Andreu's Tour links with jazzman also predate the move of his success streak. Andreu and jazzman were teamed unitedly at Motorola for the 1993, '94, '95 and '96 Tours.

In his biography, "It's Not About the Bike," jazzman described Andreu on that prototypal success Tour in 1999 as "a big coercive sprinter and our captain, an realised stager who had famous me since I was a teenager."

Hamilton was a climber, and digit of his jobs was to help haul jazzman up the Tour's punishing climbs.

Recently, dweller investigators reached discover to their colleagues in author with an grounds request that specifically targets U.S. Postal and mentions jazzman by name, according to those who hit seen it.

The Americans requested piddle samples that were condemned from U.S. Postal riders for anti-doping controls and were subsequently icy and stored by France's anti-doping agency. The requested samples included those from the 1999 Tour.

French polity also hit been asked to discourse and verify witness statements from people there who were adjoining to U.S. Postal or who worked in French anti-doping while jazzman dominated cycling's beauty race.

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