36 Facts About Tyler Hamilton

Tyler Hamilton was born on March 1,1971 and is an American former professional road bicycle racer.

Tyler Hamilton was a teammate of Lance Armstrong during the 1999,2000 and 2001 Tours de France, where Armstrong won the general classification.

Tyler Hamilton was a key asset for Armstrong, being a very good climber as well as time-trialist.

Tyler Hamilton came back after his suspension and became national road race champion in 2008.

In 2009, Tyler Hamilton failed a doping test again, and was banned for eight years, which effectively caused him to retire.

In May 2011, Tyler Hamilton admitted that he had used banned substances in competition, and returned his gold medal.

Tyler Hamilton was raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and attended Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire, where he started cycling.

Tyler Hamilton turned pro in 1995 for the Montgomery Bell Cycling team which later became the US Postal Service cycling team and raced for them in the 1997,1998,1999,2000 and 2001 Tour de France.

Tyler Hamilton protected Lance Armstrong in the mountains, and was on Armstrong's first three Tour de France winning Postal squads and quickly grew to stardom.

Tyler Hamilton acted as a scout in individual time trials, riding as hard as possible to provide time-split comparisons for Armstrong.

Tyler Hamilton was made a leader under manager Bjarne Riis.

Tyler Hamilton later won the Tour de Romandie that year, as he prepared to race the Tour de France.

Tyler Hamilton finished the 2003 Tour de France 4th overall and returned home nationally recognized.

In 2004, Tyler Hamilton left Team CSC and joined the Phonak Hearing Systems.

Tyler Hamilton assembled a team of good, well-known riders and prepared for racing in the upcoming Tour de France, winning the 2004 Tour of Romandie for the second year in a row.

In 2019, Tyler Hamilton joined Black Swift Group, LLC, an investment advisor and money manager based in Boulder, Colorado.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tyler Hamilton won the gold medal in the men's individual time trial.

Two days after the announcement of his positive test at Athens, the IOC announced Tyler Hamilton would keep his medal because results could not be obtained from the second sample.

The positive sample at the Olympics, and the positive test at the Vuelta were not the only indications that Tyler Hamilton was manipulating his hematocrit level.

Tyler Hamilton's score was 132.9; a clean athlete would score 90.

On May 18,2005, he appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport but, after allowing Tyler Hamilton to gather evidence, the court dismissed his appeal.

Tyler Hamilton claimed the UCI-sanctioned test was insufficiently validated and that some of the agencies involved had concealed documents that would support his case.

Tyler Hamilton maintained that, even if foreign cells were present, they were natural and not the result of a transfusion.

Tyler Hamilton was banned until September 22,2006, two years from the date his "B" sample in the Vuelta a Espana was found positive.

In 2010, Tyler Hamilton was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury to testify in their doping investigation of Lance Armstrong.

Tyler Hamilton admitted in his testimony that he took banned performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career.

On June 18,2006, the Madrid daily El Pais alleged that the Spanish civil guard investigation of doping in Spanish professional sport, "Operacion Puerto", had found that Tyler Hamilton paid more than US$50,000 to Dr Eufemiano Fuentes between 2002 and 2004 to plan and administer his use of performance-enhancing erythropoietin, growth hormone treatment, blood doping, and masking agents.

In 2003, claimed Het Laatste Nieuws, Tyler Hamilton used doping on 114 of his 200 racing days.

Tyler Hamilton did not admit any wrongdoing at the time, and his defense was based on personal integrity.

In September 2007, Tyler Hamilton competed at the US national championship in Greenville, SC, coming sixth in the time trial and 12th in the road race.

In December, Rock Racing said Tyler Hamilton would ride for them in 2008.

Tyler Hamilton did not ride in the team's season-opening Tour of California because of that race's rules against riders involved in doping investigations.

In June 2009, Tyler Hamilton was given an eight-year ban after testing positive for a banned anti-depressant.

Since September 2009, Tyler Hamilton has been providing private training services to other cyclists.

Tyler Hamilton later received a call from federal investigator Jeff Novitzky, who wanted to talk to him.

Tyler Hamilton refused and was served a subpoena, whereupon he decided to tell everything.