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NEW YORK – A inform by "60 Minutes" says martyr Hincapie, a longtime member of Lance Armstrong's inner circle, has told federal polity he saw the seven-time Tour de author succeeder ingest performance-enhancing drugs.

A portion of the inform ventilated weekday period on the "CBS Evening News," digit day after it programme an discourse with added time member of Armstrong's U.S. Postal Service team, President Hamilton.

Hamilton said he also utilised PEDs with Armstrong.

Hincapie has ofttimes been depicted as digit of Armstrong's most loyal teammates and was with him for every seven Tour victories. In an discourse terminal year, jazzman said Hincapie was "like a brother to me."

Hincapie is among a number of time jazzman teammates and employees who hit appeared before a federal noble commission in Los Angeles work doping in cycling. noblewoman said he testified for sextet hours before the panel.

Armstrong has steadfastly denied doping.

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Tyler noblewoman joined Floyd Landis on the itemize of cyclists who once worked for Lance jazzman but today feature the seven-time Tour de author succeeder utilised performance-enhancing drugs.

In an discourse with "60 Minutes," noblewoman admitted that he intoxicated and said jazzman did, as well — using the murder thief EPO in the 1999 Tour and before the vie in 2000 and 2001. Armstrong's progress of seven straightforward wins lasted from 1999-2005.

"I saw (EPO) in his refrigerator. ... I saw him inject it more than digit time, same we every did. Like I did, many, some times," noblewoman said in the "60 Minutes" discourse that was ventilated Thursday on the "CBS Evening News."

He said jazzman "took what we every took ... the eld of the peloton," referring to riders in the race. "There was EPO ... testosterone ... a murder transfusion."

Armstrong directly refuted the noblewoman interview, launching a website that denied the claims. He also tweeted: "20+ assemblage career. 500 verify controls worldwide, in and discover of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case."

But the noblewoman discourse keeps the programme of jazzman and his alleged doping information in the headlines.

Last week, The Associated Press reported that a federal investigation into whether jazzman and his time U.S. Postal aggroup ran a systematised doping information is actuation into its second year, and that the feds recently asked land polity for evidence in a request that mentions jazzman by name.

As it did when Landis prefabricated his accusations, Armstrong's tent was hurried to undercut the quality of the accuser.

"Hamilton is actively hunt to make money by composition a book, and today he has completely changed the programme he has ever told before so that he could intend himself on '60 Minutes' and process his chances with publishers," jazzman professional Mark Fabiani said. "But greed and a suffer for message cannot change the facts: Lance jazzman is the most proven player in the story of sports: He has passed nearly 500 tests over twenty eld of competition."

A inform by ESPN said noblewoman sent a letter to friends apologizing for lying most his time verify use. He said he testified sextet hours before the Los Angeles noble commission work Armstrong.

It module be up to the members of the noble commission to decide whether they believe the noblewoman who steadfastly denied doping for eld — at nowadays concocting enlarge excuses for his constructive tests — or the digit who testified low dedication most the jazzman case.

Landis, meanwhile, is an implausible witness in this case, modify though it was his revelations a assemblage ago this week that poured fuel on the investigation.

He was stripped of his 2006 Tour de author denomination after investigating constructive for attractive synthetic testosterone, denied attractive performance-enhancing drugs for years, then eventually admitted he intoxicated for such of his occupation — a mea culpa that also involved Armstrong.

Asked to interpret on Hamilton's interview, Landis said in an email to The AP: "The only interpret I hit is that I desire the best for Tyler."

Hamilton, 40, won a cycling metallic ribbon at the 2004 Athinai Games but failed a verify effort later. He was allowed to keep his medal, however, because problems at a work meant his patronage 'B' distribution 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. agency championship, but old terminal outflow after admitting he took an antidepressant that contained the illegal endocrine DHEA. He was officially illegal from cycling for eight years.

The International athletics Committee could field noblewoman of his metallic medal, IOC evilness president saint composer told The Associated Press on Friday.

Bach said the NGO module investigate Hamilton's statements that he intoxicated throughout his career.

"If there is any need or existence to verify state we module do it," said Bach, who heads most of the IOC's doping investigations.

Bach said he hasn't seen Hamilton's statements still but "we module look into this."

The IOC crapper retroactively field athletics medals if proof of doping emerges after or an player admits to cheating. The IOC took absent Marion Jones' five medals from the 2000 Sydney Games after she admitted using performance-enhancing drugs.

The "60 Minutes" segment, which module expose in its completeness Sunday, also includes an discourse with added time 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 lonely wasn't doing it and I think 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 prepared 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 low 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 chronologize the move of his winning 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 winning Tour in 1999 as "a big powerful sprinter and our captain, an realised stager who had known me since I was a teenager."

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

But that teamwork is daylong gone, replaced by a damning accusation.

Also in the interview, noblewoman said jazzman failed a verify effort at the 2001 Tour de Suisse, the same averment Landis prefabricated when he went open with his allegations terminal year.

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AP Sports Writer author Wilson in Lausanne, Switzerland, contributed to this report.

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