Lance Armstong is still not telling the whole truth, says former teammate Tyler Hamilton

LONG time Lance Armstrong antagonist Tyler Hamilton says his former teammate is still not telling the whole truth about his involvement in doping.

LONG time Lance Armstrong antagonist Tyler Hamilton says his former teammate is still not telling the whole truth about his involvement in doping.

Hamilton claims Armstrong is still not admitting to testing positive at a cycling race 12 years ago and that the Union Cycliste Internationale helped cover up the result.

Last week, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Armstrong said the UCI never made incriminating evidence disappear at the Tour of Switzerland in 2001. His denial was backed by UCI president Pat McQuaid last week.

However, evidence Armstrong did test positive in 2001 exists in an affidavit put together by the US Anti-Doping Agency.

The evidence, as told by Hamilton, explains how Armstrong said he'd tested positive at the Tour of Switzerland and his understanding that "his (Armstrong's) people had been in touch with the UCI, they were going to have a meeting and everything would be OK."

And a former director of a Swiss drug testing laboratory, Martial Saugy, told USADA boss Travis Tygart the UCI told him to meet with Armstrong's team boss s Johan Bruyneel to explain to different ways to blood dope without raising alarms.

"If he didn't test positive then why did he tell me that morning?" Hamilton said.

"Dr Saugy ... he met with Johan Bruyneel and Lance Armstrong some time after the Tour of Switzerland and told them basically how to beat the EPO test. I'm not sure why he's (Armstrong) owning up to some things and not owning up to others."

In the Winfrey interview Armstrong said the Switzerland story was a myth.

"That story isn't true. There was no positive test. There was no paying off of the lab. There was no secret meeting with the lab director."

Armstrong also said reports he offered a $250,000 donation to USADA were false.

But But Tygart's former boss Terry Madden said "one of Lance Armstrong's closest representatives" called with an offer between $200,000 and $250,000.

Hamilton won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics, but handed it back last year.
The last drug test Hamilton failed was back 2009. After testing Hamilton was banned from cycling for eight years and then decided retire.