21 May,2011 08:28 AM IST | | PA Sport
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has made furious attacks on former team-mates, the broadcaster CBS and a federal investigator after the latest drug claims against him.
The Texan launched a website ww.facts4lance.com after CBS began trailing excerpts from a documentary about Armstrong which included claims from Olympic gold medallist Tyler Hamilton that he had seen his one-time US Postal team-mate inject EPO.
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CBS, whose 60 Minutes programme will broadcast the full interview with Hamilton on Sunday evening, are accused of a "serious beach" of journalistic ethics by not providing Armstrong with the names of riders who had made allegations against him.
The website was launched within an hour of the first transmission of the Hamilton excerpt. Hamilton, a team-mate of Armstrong's at US Postal between 1998 and 2001, admitted he had taken the blood booster EPO "many, many times" and said he saw Armstrong take the drug more than once.
"I saw (EPO) in his refrigerator," the 40-year-old from Massachusetts said.
"I saw him inject it more than one time like we all did. Like I did, many, many times."u00a0 His claims were denied by Armstrong's lawyer Mark Fabiani and the cyclist also used Twitter to dismiss Hamilton.
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He tweeted: "20+ year career. 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case."
