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Pound blasts lab and IOC officials in Hamilton case

May 4th, 2005 by Mike
Tyler Hamilton

VeloNews.com

World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound has faulted both the International Olympic Committee and the official lab of the Athens Olympics for mistakes he says enabled Tyler Hamilton to keep his individual time trial gold medal despite “strong evidence” that American was guilty of blood doping at the Games.

“As far as I understand…[the lab director] blew it and also the IOC blew it,” Pound said in an interview with Greek private radio station Skai, broadcast on Wednesday.

Pound insists that the former Phonak cyclist tested positive for a blood transfusion in August after winning the Olympic time-trial gold medal.

However, he was able to keep his gold medal because the IOC said the result of a follow-up sample was “non-conclusive” because it had been destroyed by being deep-frozen.

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One Response to “Pound blasts lab and IOC officials in Hamilton case”

  1. 1 Erik 

    leave the little guy alone…he’s the toughest little sob in cycling world pound for pound :)

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