“They Would Help You..”: Lance Armstrong’s Contemporary Tyler Hamilton Once Revealed How Doctors Knew Everything About Beating Drug Tests

The doping charges against Lance Armstrong brought out the dark side of cycling sports. The revelations were shocking. During the 2000s, Lance was the face of cycling sports, and his conviction collapsed the sport’s image. Lance Armstrong confessed on the Oprah show that he consumed drugs during all his seven Tour de France wins. This raised serious doubts about how he can be breaking the law without anyone knowing about it. However, it would be silly to think that nobody helped him during those seven years. 

Every sport tries to level the field for all contestants participating in it. Hence, each sport has some protocols and tests that every player has to go through. This ensures the decorum of the sports and players. So does that mean Lance didn’t go through such a test? Otherwise, he would have been caught for the very first time. Or did someone help him to pass these tests even after taking drugs? Lance’s former teammate had an answer to this. 

Doctors of Lance Armstrong helped him and his team to pass tests

In July 2017, Lance’s teammate, Tyler Hamilton, gave an interview to Graham Bensinger. Speaking in an interview, Tyler Hamilton told that team’s doctors helped players in passing doping tests. In particular, the doctors of his team were well-informed about the ways to dodge the results. 

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The doctors used to tell players to take certain drugs. He said, “The team I was on had really good doctors. They would tell you what you could take“. The doctor would further tell them the perfect quantity of drugs one can take and still pass the tests. “They would tell you how much you could take and how far from the race you could take, ” he further added. 

Lance’s team had to follow simple rules, and they were safe

Doctors also advised the team to have a time gap between consumption and the races. Since initially, the tests were conducted during race time only, players had to follow certain rules to keep them safe. “There were some simple rules that you had to follow and if you follow them, it wasn’t hard to pass these tests,“, he told Graham. 

Soon after that, the association started laying out the whereabouts forms. Players have to inform the organization about their location during the off-season. This was done to find out the defaulters as most of the consumption cases happened during off-seasons. But players often told their false locations to avoid such raids. “Sometimes you say you are here but, you are actually there. You are at your home,” he told. 

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