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LOS ANGELES – Attorneys for Lance jazzman have demanded an on-air defence from "60 Minutes" after the nous of Switzerland's anti-doping work denied allegations the seven-time Tour de author succeeder proven constructive for performance-enhancing drugs at the 2001 Tour de Suisse.

In a honor dispatched weekday to CBS News Chairman and "60 Minutes" chief shaper Jeff Fager, lawyer Elliot Peters said the May 22 portion most jazzman was shapely on a series of falsehoods, and he accused the honored CBS exhibit of sloppy journalism.

"In the algid light of morning your news was either extraordinarily shoddy, to the point of existence reckless and unprofessional, or a vicious hit-and-run job," Peters wrote. "In either case, a unconditional on-air defence is required."

CBS News spokesman Kevin Tedesco said weekday he couldn't directly comment on the letter, but added: "We study this the most complete enquiry into doping in the climb of cycling ever done."

Former associate President Hamilton questionable in the piece that jazzman talked most using the illegal blood-booster EPO to educate for his ordinal Tour de author in 2001 and cycling's governing body, the International Cycling Union, helped him conceal a constructive effort at the land event.

Last week, the nous of Switzerland's anti-doping laboratory, Martial Saugy, denied allegations jazzman proven constructive for performing-enhancing drugs during the 2001 Tour de Suisse.

Saugy said his work did find suspicious levels of EPO in four piddle samples from the vie jazzman won, but he didn't undergo if any belonged to the seven-time Tour de author winner.

Armstrong repeatedly has denied doping and has never proven positive. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are investigating an questionable doping information in Armstrong's teams.

"60 Minutes" also reported that the UCI officials brokered a gathering involving jazzman and Saugy's World Anti-Doping Agency-accredited lab, which proven the land vie samples.

Saugy told the land regular Neue Zurcher Zeitung last hebdomad that he met with jazzman and then-U.S. Postal aggroup trainer Johan Bruyneel, but not in Lausanne as Hamilton claimed and isolated to a suspicious effort result.

Peters additional the show's producers were alerted by Armstrong's camp prior to the show's transmission that the Swiss-related allegations were simulated and provided grounds to disprove them.

"What is specially disturbing is that '60 Minutes' had access to the genuine facts, could easily have verified them, and ostensibly chose instead to broadcast untruths and then place implication on crowning of the falsehoods," Peters said.

(This edition CORRECTS acronym for International Cycling Union to UCI. )

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