Tyler Hamilton has urged his former team directors Johan Bruyneel and Bjarne Riis to admit to their part in the doping scandal that engulfed professional cycling, adding that if the do so, they should be allowed to make a fresh start in the sport.
Hamilton rode under both Bruyneel's US Postal team and Riis’s CSC team.
Bruyneel is already under USADA investigation, and like his star USPS rider Lance Armstrong, faces a lifelong ban from the sport if found to have engaged in doping activity.
Riis, hoewever, has never been investigated, despite a tranche of riders who were under his care, including Hamilton, Alberto Contador, Frank Schleck, Jörg Jaksche, Michele Bartoli, Dave Zabriskie, Christian Vande Velde, and Michael Rasmussen all admitting to or being caught with illicit substances.
Hamilton told Cyclingnews that Riis broke more laws than he was letting on during the 1996 Tour de France.
“If they [Riis and Bruyneel] come forward and tell all then why not give them another shot. They shouldn’t just get a free walk. Everyone has to have some sort of consequence,” Hamilton said.
“There’s obviously more that Riis needs to open up about. He should be given that opportunity with some sort of knowledge that he’ll get another chance.
“If not it will remain the same and secrets will remain in the peloton.”
There's video of this floating around on X - the driver reverses into the shop for his three-point turn, then goes forward, hits the parked Mini...
I think it'll make it worse! Because "we have to drive"......
The Magene power meter is a game changer. Dual sided for £249 in the crank length of your choice and very accurate. No brainer
Doesn't the Shell thing give them money to burn?...
Or on "their" parking space...
The old trainer and the new "pedal at desk" both put me in mind of some of these, rather more "functional" pedal set-ups:...
The template at the top of that Wikipedia entry works on so many levels:
It mustelid to a lot of frustration though.
Even if these bib tights are the best in the world who can afford them?
Tediously, I never seem to get anywhere.