Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyclist

Re:Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyc... by waxyalan on Saturday April 30, 2022 @02:56AM (#31213981)

One of Armstrong's team mates from US Postal days wrote a tell all biography after he was banned for doping: Tyler Hamilton the secret race, in it (paraphrasing) he said he saw athletes from every professional sport in the waiting room of the private doctor who was doing his doping.

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Re:Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyc... by ben7799 on Saturday April 30, 2022 @08:12AM (#31215435)

I read Tyler’s book and don’t recall him saying that quite so directly. It is surely true though.

I met him at an unsanctioned/non-UCI race he showed up at during his ban but before he came clean. Weird experience, he obviously won the race and most people were supportive but it was such a weird scene. You could practically feel the tormented aura of guilt/shame/embarrassment coming off him. IIRC he had won that race as an amateur prior to doping as well.

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Re:Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyc... by cycomanic on Saturday April 30, 2022 @09:37AM (#31215984)

I don't recall reading that part either. The book is a great book though, not just for the doping part but also because it gives a very interesting behind the scenes view of many iconic cycling moments of that time.

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Re:Exposed by a Strava KOM: The Many Lives of a Fake Pro Cyc... by waxyalan on Saturday April 30, 2022 @09:52AM (#31216082)

It has been a while since I read the book but skimming it now I can only see the Spanish police unofficially linked tennis players and soccer teams to the Spanish doctor they were using.

I maybe misremembering or misquoting.

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