Hamilton returns his cycling gold

[legalskier]

The American cyclist Tyler Hamilton, the 2004 Olympic gold medalist in the time trial, has voluntarily surrendered his gold medal to the United States Anti-Doping Agency after admitting to doping during his cycling career, the International Olympic Committee said Friday....Usada confirmed in a statement Friday that Hamilton had returned the medal and said, “We will continue to work with the I.O.C. and the U.S.O.C. as appropriate concerning the final implications of our overall investigation.”
Hamilton, 40, was a teammate of Lance Armstrong’s on the United States Postal Service team, and helped Armstrong win the Tours in 1999, 2000 and 2001. Armstrong won seven consecutive Tours from 1999 to 2005.
On Thursday, in a report on the “CBS Evening News,” Hamilton said he had seen Armstrong inject himself with the banned performance-enhancing drug EPO to win those Tours. A full interview with Hamilton will be broadcast Sunday on “60 Minutes” on CBS.
“I saw him inject it more than one time,” Hamilton said. “Yeah, like we all did. Like I did many, many times.” ***
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/21/sports/hamilton-surrendering-his-gold-medal.html?hp
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[wa-loaf]

The mans got a book to sell.

 

[OldsnowboarderME]

I don't understand what the big deal is about sports and performance enchancing drugs .. like sports were even important.

 

[riverc0il]

The mans got a book to sell.

Yup.

The whole writing a book to screw Lance thing is kinda weird to me. Everyone believes he doped. So there are either two options: he either didn't and a clean roadie beat every doper out there or a fellow doper beat all the other dopers. Either way, it doesn't raise Hamilton up by trying to bring Armstrong down. It does give Hamilton a massive cash infusion. How many extra books will he sell by giving up his Gold medal? Is he really doing it for his conscience? Please.

I don't understand what the big deal is about sports and performance enchancing drugs .. like sports were even important.

Taken to an extreme, doping can be deadly. There is an argument to be made for letting these guys kill themselves and not caring that way there is a perfectly level playing field versus an arbitrary gray moving wide line. But by sanctioning, even implicitly, that type of thing... you basically give the edge to the guys that care about their lives the least and are willing to do crazy things to their bodies to win. Works for the body building world, lol.

 

[marcski]

Here's the thing, let's say for argument's sake, that all the riders, including Lance were doping......like these "accusers" are saying...but Lance still won 7 straight Tours. No one else did that, even if they were all doping.

 

[marcski]

Just read this: http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/rep...&ns_source=cyclingnews&ns_linkname=0&ns_fee=0