60 Minutes: Tyler Hamilton claims Armstrong doped

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One thing I wonder -- why isn't anyone accusing Indurain of using drugs? Or Hinault and Merckx? Fignon admitted to doping, and LeMond and Hinault beat him, so why don't we think they were on drugs, too? LeMond won the Tour with pieces of lead in his lungs. Why do we believe he was clean?

Good question. When did the UCI (or whatever cycling organization) start testing for doping? Going further back, Fausto Coppi (died in 1960) was open about using amphetamines.

Correction: Seems, at least in the Tour de France, testing started in the late 1960s. Here's an interesting Wikipedia article on this subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_...Tour_de_France