Tyler Hamilton thinks his former teammate Lance Armstrong is still not fully open about his cycling career and doping history in a new documentary.
“I’ve heard a lot of half-truths,” 49-year-old Hamilton said in the podcast on Tuesday Off the Ball. “If you tell the whole truth, there are serious consequences. Half truths also have consequences, but you may be able to stay in the sport.”
The American was Armstrong’s teammate at US Postal between 1998 and 2002. Hamilton was caught using blood doping in 2004, when he won gold in the Olympic time trial, and eight years later, he co-authored an authoritative book on doping practices in cycling and especially Armstrong’s US Postal teams with author Daniel Coyle.
Armstrong confessed in 2013 that he used prohibited substances during his career, after which he lost his seven Tour de France victories. The American sports channel ESPN broadcast the first part of the documentary on Sunday LANCE in which Armstrong promises to tell his truth. “I will not lie.”
Hamilton has doubts after the first episode if Armstrong lives up to that promise. “I would like to hear many more truths,” he says. “What, why, how; all those things. That would be good for the future of cycling and the younger generations.”
“It can make a big difference if those secrets are made public. We need more details about the past. Not just from Lance, but from a lot of main characters of the time. If we don’t know exactly what happened in the past, it can happen again. “
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