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NEW YORK (Reuters) – President Hamilton, who was allowed to ready his Athens athletics metallic ribbon despite imperfectness a doping test, has eventually confessed to cheating and accused other crowning cyclists including Lance jazzman of doing the same.

In an discourse to be aired by "60 Minutes" Sunday, noblewoman ended eld of denials by eventually admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs, but insisted he was not alone.

The 40-year-old said he witnessed his past aggroup mate jazzman dispense himself with a blood-booster during the 1999 Tour de France, which jazzman won.

"(Armstrong) took what we every took... there was EPO (erythropoietin)... testosterone... a murder transfusion," noblewoman said in an excerpt free by the CBS television network.

"I saw (EPO) in his refrigerator. I saw him dispense it more than digit time, same we every did, same I did many, some times."

Armstrong, who won the Tour de author heptad times, has ever denied taking illegal substances but has repeatedly had to fend soured accusations despite having never unsuccessful a drugs test.

His attorney Mark Fabiani told Reuters Thursday that Hamilton's accusations most jazzman were untrue.

"Hamilton is actively seeking to attain money by composition a aggregation 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.

"But greed and a hunger for message cannot change the facts: Lance jazzman is the most proven athlete in the story of sports."

Armstrong reiterated Fabiani's view on his Twitter page.

"20+ assemblage career. 500 take controls worldwide, in and discover of competition. Never a unsuccessful test. I rest my case," he tweeted.

World cycling's governance embody the UCI said it had exclusive meet become aware of the accusation.

"UCI heard of it for the prototypal instance today in the press," spokesman Enrico Carpani said when contacted. "Only Mr. noblewoman and Mr. jazzman are in a function to interpret on it."

Hamilton said he had definite to become decent after he was subpoenaed by a noble trauma currently work jazzman after another of his past aggroup kinsfolk spinous the finger at him.

In an unstoppered honor to his friends and kinsfolk published by various media, noblewoman wrote: "Last summer, I received a subpoena to declare before a noble jury. Until that time I walked into the courtroom, I hadn't told a soul.

"My evidence went on for six hours. For me, it was same the attorney Dam breaking. I unsealed up; I told the full truth, and null but the truth. And I felt a significance of comfort I'd never felt before."

OLYMPIC CONTROVERSY

Floyd Landis, who won the 2006 Tour de author but was stripped of his conclusion after imperfectness a dose test, prefabricated kindred accusations against jazzman when he eventually confessed to cheating after outlay quaternary eld and $1 meg protesting his innocence.

No charges hit been laid against Armstrong, who retired in Feb after digit of the most successful and disputable careers in professional cycling.

The American was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996 but recovered and returned to racing, winning the Tour de author an unexampled heptad serial years, from 1999 to 2005.

He depart when he was at the top, but prefabricated a comeback in 2009, at 37, saying he part uncomprehensible the stimulate of rivalry but was unvoluntary by a greater cause, to help encourage cancer awareness.

Hamilton was a support rider of Armstrong's at the U.S. Postal Service aggroup for his prototypal threesome Tour de author victories.

In 2004, noblewoman won the time-trial at the Athens athletics and was allowed to ready his ribbon after investigating constructive for murder doping because the laboratory accidently blasted his B distribution by unfathomable chilling it.

The following year, noblewoman proven constructive for a murder transfusion and was illegal for two years.

In 2006 he was linked to the land doping gossip dubbed "Operation Puerto" before investigating constructive for steroids threesome eld later. He was presented an eight-year forbiddance after he said he had taken an over-the-counter treatment for depression.

(Additional news by Julien Pretot in Paris. Editing by John O'Brien and Ossian Shine)

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