Tyler Hamilton

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Tyler Hamilton Road cycling
Tyler Hamilton in September 2007
Tyler Hamilton in September 2007
To person
Date of birth 1st March 1971 (age 49)
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Street
To the team
Current team End of career
function driver
Team (s)
1999–2001
2002–2003
2004–9 / 04
9 / 04–9 / 06
2007
2008 		US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
Team CSC
Phonak Cycling Team
Anti-Doping
Team Tinkoff Credit Systems
Rock Racing
Most important successes
2000 Dauphiné Libéré
2003 Liège – Bastogne – Liège , Tour de Romandie
Last updated: October 7, 2019

Tyler Hamilton (* 1. March 1971 in Marblehead , Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional - cyclist . He made a name for himself as a noble helper to Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France . From 1999 to 2001 he helped him with his first three Tour de France successes, which were subsequently revoked. In 2003 he achieved his greatest individual success by winning the classic Liège – Bastogne – Liège .

Career

Beginnings and successes

Hamilton was active as a skier for the University of Boulder until he broke two vertebrae in 1991. After rehabilitation he devoted himself to cycling.

In 2002, Hamilton moved to the Danish team CSC for two years , which was led by the former tour winner Bjarne Riis . Here he developed into a classification driver who was very successful in the big stage races . Despite a torn shoulder blade, he finished second at the Giro d'Italia in 2002 .
The following year, he first won the Tour de Romandie , only to deliver his masterpiece at the 2003 Tour de France and cause a stir: In a mass fall on the first stage, Hamilton suffered another hairline crack, this time on his collarbone, and won anyway not only the 16th stage , but even came fourth in the overall classification. Due to this strong performance, the injury was initially doubted. However, his team boss Bjarne Riis then showed the press photographer X-rays , which were supposed to prove the injury.

In 2004 Hamilton switched to the Swiss team Phonak Cycling Team . He was considered one of the favorites for the Tour de France 2004 , after he had won the Tour de Romandie again in preparation and the Dauphiné Libéré finished second behind Iban Mayo and in front of Lance Armstrong. Since he again suffered back injuries in a mass fall during the first stages of the Tour de France 2004, he had to give up this tour early.

Doping and the end of your career

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , Hamilton won the gold medal in the individual time trial . After this victory he was tested positive for blood doping with foreign blood, but the B-sample could not be cross-checked due to incorrect storage. So he was allowed to keep his gold medal. The lawsuit of the second-placed Russian Vyacheslav Yekimov was dismissed by the International Court of Justice (CAS) at the end of June 2006 for formal reasons . "The lawsuit should only have been submitted by the IOC or the world association UCI, it said in the CAS statement." Hamilton initially kept his gold medal.

A few weeks later, after his victory at the eighth stage of the Vuelta a España 2004 (individual time trial) on September 11th, Tyler Hamilton tested positive for foreign blood doping again. He himself denied this and expressed doubts about the new test method used. His former team Phonak resigned on suspicion of doping.
On April 19, 2005, Hamilton was banned from the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) for 24 months due to this doping result . Hamilton's appeal against this decision before the International Court of Sports was rejected. According to the New York Times , Hamilton claimed, "The blood did not come from a stranger, but from a so-called vanishing twin, " a 'missing twin'. This twin died at an early prenatal stage and his blood cells were reabsorbed by Tyler Hamilton. In Hamilton's body, these cells would have produced blood that would not have matched Hamilton. Hamilton later admitted that this was nothing more than "a particularly bold lie". After the doping ban, Hamilton wanted to ride again. It was planned to take part in the Road World Championships in Salzburg in September 2006, but he was not nominated by the US Cycling Association.

In August 2006, records of him were found with the Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes , which show that he was taking growth hormones , testosterone , the blood doping agent EPO and insulin even before the Olympic victory. The Copenhagen newspaper “Politiken” reported, citing the Spanish documents, that Hamilton's “doping diary” showed that the US professional had doped on 114 out of around 200 days of the 2003 season. The newspaper report said that the doping activities listed in the diary were so extensive that an entire team of helpers must have been involved. The documents are also said to have included a bill from Fuentes for $ 54,060 that Hamilton's wife Haven Parchinski allegedly paid for doping drugs.

In 2007 Hamilton signed a contract with Team Tinkoff Credit Systems , but was suspended again in late April 2007. From the 2008 season to April 2009 he drove for the Rock Racing team . In mid-July he celebrated his first success for this team: he won a stage of the Tour of Qinghai Lake . In addition, he won the overall ranking of the tour. In August he was able to record an even greater success by winning the American road championship.
In April 2009 he was convicted of doping again and banned for eight years. He then declared his active career over.

In May 2011, he confessed to years of doping in an American TV interview. He also made serious doping allegations against Lance Armstrong. Armstrong used the blood doping agent EPO in the Tour de France in 1999, 2000 and 2001. “I saw EPO in his fridge. I saw him inject himself more than once, ”said Hamilton. In the course of his confession, he also returned the gold medal he had won in the Olympic time trial in 2004 (see list of Olympic medals revoked ).

He repeated the accusations against Armstrong and his team in his book The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs . Hamilton was one of the key witnesses against Armstrong in the USADA doping trial. He also incriminated Bjarne Riis , who was his team manager at Team CSC in 2002 and 2003 . Riis brought him together with the Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, who has meanwhile become known through the doping scandal , and knew about his doping program.

In August 2012, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to officially revoke Tyler Hamilton's Olympic victory in the Athens time trial in 2004 after Hamilton, as a key witness in the doping investigation against Lance Armstrong , confessed to doping and told the IOC that he wanted to return his gold medal.

successes

1996

1999

2000

2002

2003

2004

2008

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - 2 - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 69 51 13 25th 95 15th 4th DNF
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - DNF
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Publications

  • Tyler Hamilton, Daniel Coyle: The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs . Bantam, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-345-53041-7 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tyler Hamilton, Daniel Coyle: The Cycling Mafia and Their Dirty Business. 2012, ISBN 978-3-89029-765-1 .
  2. ↑ radsport-news.com of July 24, 2003: Instead of sick leave, stage victory
  3. ↑ Lubbock Avalanche-Journal of July 18, 2003: Time trial crucial for Armstrong ( Memento of the original of November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lubbockonline.com
  4. ↑ spiegel.de of July 13, 2004: The King of Pain
  5. ↑ a b Doping diary of professional cyclist Hamilton emerged  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. gmx, August 21, 2006.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gmx.net  
  6. ↑ Creative explanation for positive doping test: chimerism. In: Doctors newspaper. July 1, 2005.
  7. ↑ Tyler Hamilton and the missing twin. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 17, 2010. Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Markus Völker: Doping book from ex-professional cyclist Hamilton: In the midst of Verderbnis. In: taz.de . November 8, 2012. Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
  9. ↑ velonews.com of April 17, 2009: Tyler Hamilton retires following second positive doping test
  10. ↑ 2009 cycling doping cases on cycling4fans.de
  11. ↑ cyclingnews.com of August 31, 2012: Hamilton says Armstrong gave him EPO before 1999 Tour de France
  12. ↑ spiegel.de of September 3, 2009: "He was a pioneer of doping"
  13. ↑ focus.de of October 12, 2012: US anti-doping agency USADA publishes all evidence
  14. ↑ radsport-news.com of November 5, 2012: Hamilton: "Riis brought me together with Fuentes"
  15. ↑ IOC: Hamilton's 2004 Olympic victory revoked on rad-net.de on August 9, 2012
  16. ↑ Hamilton expected to officially lose 2004 Olympic title tomorrow on velonation.com on August 9, 2012
  17. ↑ Hamilton requested removal of Olympic title on cyclingnews.com on August 10, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Tyler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Marblehead , Massachusetts, United States