Who is Tyler Hamilton?
If you haven’t already heard, the UCI has asked USA Cycling and USADA to begin disciplinary action against Tyler Hamilton in connection with Spain’s Operation Puerto investigation. I don’t know whether Hamilton was guilty or not of blood doping back in 2004. He says not, but he lost when his case went to arbitration. Perhaps his attorneys made some mistakes in how they fought the charges. Then again, perhaps he’s really guilty. Whatever the case, the “fetal twin” defense is going to go down in sports history the way the infamous “Twinkie” defense went down in legal history. What appears to be happening is that the UCI believes Hamilton worked with or was a patient of Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor at the heart of the Operation Puerto scandal. Now, whatever evidence they have of wrong-doing on Hamilton’s part would have to date back to 2004 or earlier, as he’s not been doing much in the racing world since then. If he really was guilty of blood doping back then, someone probably helped hi
