Cycling: ‘Armstrong paid motorcyclist to deliver’

Armstrong paid him between $15,000-20,000 to do it: Former teammate Tyler Hamilton

LONDON: Lance Armstrong paid for a motorcyclist to deliver the banned bloodbooster erythropoietin to him during the 1999 Tour de France, former teammate Tyler Hamilton said in a BBC radio documentary broadcast. “Yeah in 1999 we had a motorcycle driver and we had him follow the Tour around for the better part of three weeks,” said Hamilton, who was one of Armstrong’s US Postal team teammates from 1998 to 2001. “He’d stay close enough to where we were staying at the hotels to drop off at any key moment. We knew other people were going to take risks so we were going take it too,” added Hamilton who said they put the used syringes into drinks cans before crushing them. “Lance paid him between $15,000-20,000 to do it.”

Published in The Express Tribune, October 17^th, 2012.