The Americans had only a handful of seconds left to run out the clock and advance a step closer to the Olympics. With the pressure building with each tick, the victory slipped right through their hands.LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Tyler Hamilton has given his 2004 cycling gold medal to the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
In an interview with “60 Minutes” broadcast Thursday on the “CBS Evening News,” Hamilton admitted he doped and said Lance Armstrong did as well.
The International Olympic Committee had said it could strip Hamilton of his time trial gold at the Athens Olympics, but USADA released a statement Friday saying Hamilton had already handed over the medal.
The IOC provisionally investigated Hamilton for doping after he won in 2004, but the case was dropped after his backup sample was mistakenly frozen.
Hamilton’s former U.S. Postal Service teammate Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia stands to be upgraded from silver.
