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Lance Armstrong's former teammate, Tyler Hamilton, says Armstrong and other team leaders encouraged, promoted and took part in a doping program in an effort to win the Tour de France in 1999 and beyond, according to a report aired Sunday night on ''60 Minutes.''
Hamilton said he saw Armstrong take performance-enhancing drugs, EPO and testosterone and also saw him receive a banned blood transfusion in 2000.
In the interview, portions of which were aired Thursday and Friday on ''CBS Evening News,'' Hamilton revealed other observations about the U.S. Postal team operation:
·Team leaders, including doctors and managers, encouraged and supervised doping;
·Doping was going on inside the U.S. Postal team even before Armstrong joined in 1998;
·Performance-enhancing drugs, including EPO and human growth hormone, were handed out to cyclists in white lunch bags;
·Team members were met at the airport, driven to hotels, told to lie down and give blood that could be transfused back into their bodies at a later date.
Armstrong long has denied doping and has never tested positive.
39-year-old Oregonian
wins Tour of California
Bend, Ore., native Chris Horner won the Tour of California with a solid performance in the final stage Sunday, holding off RadioShack teammate Levi Leipheimer by 38 seconds.
Garmin-Cervelo's Tom Danielson finished 2:45 behind Horner in third place, and teammate Christian Vande Velde was fourth.
The 39-year-old Horner was the oldest rider to complete the race. The 16-year pro racing veteran finished in 23 hours, 46 minutes and 41 seconds after leading the overall standings for each of the final five days in North America's most prominent cycling race.
BASKETBALL
Rose denies steroid comment
Chicago guard and reigning NBA MVP Derrick Rose said he does not recall telling ESPN the Magazine that the league has a steroid problem.
The magazine's May 16 issue has a quote it attributes to Rose, in which he was quoted as saying the NBA has a ''huge'' problem and needs ''a level playing field.''
Before Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals Sunday night against Miami, Rose issued a statement through the Bulls saying he does not even recall being asked about the topic. He added that if he was asked about performance-enhancing drug use, he ''clearly misunderstood'' the question.
Rose says, ''Let me be clear, I do not believe there is a performance-enhancing drug problem in the NBA.''
HORSE RACING
