May 20, 2011 6:36 PM

Ex-teammate: I saw Lance Armstrong inject EPO

Whether or not Armstrong was able to get preferential treatment, there is something else that concerns Howman: around the time the International Cycling Union (UCI) arranged that unusual meeting, Armstrong donated $25,000 to the UCI -- the same organization that polices doping.

Three years later, he announced another $100,000 donation. Armstrong says that he was supporting anti-doping efforts

"It doesn't look good when you are effectively giving money to the people who have your fate in their hands. And the testing program," Howman said.

Asked if other cyclists have done the same thing, Howman said, "Not to my knowledge. I have not heard of any other athlete in any other country in any other sport having done that. It's unique."

Asked if it's inappropriate, Howman said, "Totally inappropriate, I would have thought."

The International Cycling Union strongly denies that Armstrong's donations were inappropriate. We asked the International Cycling Union to provide us with the test results from the 2001 Tour de Suisse. They said they couldn't because of rider confidentiality.

However in a letter given to us by Armstrong's attorney, UCI said "none of the samples reported positive...belongs to Mr. Lance Armstrong."

We have learned that another focus of federal authorities is the relationship between Armstrong and Michele Ferrari, an Italian doctor and famous trainer of top cyclists.

"Armstrong has always maintained that Dr. Ferrari provided him with a training regimen and never ever gave him performance enhancing drugs. Based on your personal knowledge, is that true?" Pelley asked Tyler Hamilton.

"I can't say I saw Michele Ferrari ever give Lance Armstrong performance enhancing drugs. But, do I know for a fact that they talked about performance enhancing drugs and how to take it and when and when, how, and why? Yes," Hamilton said.

"And how do you know that?" Pelley asked.

"'Cause I heard it," Hamilton said.

"You were there?" Pelley asked.

"Yeah, yeah," Hamilton said.

"Those conversations were about what?" Pelley asked.

"Drugs. I mean, a lotta other things. Michele Ferrari is (an) amazing coach, a trainer. He's a brilliant guy. He taught Lance how to train properly. Obviously, in cycling there's more than just training and resting and eating correctly. There's one more element, the doping part. And he gave him, you know, a doping schedule," Hamilton said.

Hamilton told us that he too worked with Ferrari for about a year and received a doping schedule for taking EPO. Ferrari declined to comment. He was banned from the sport by the Italian cycling federation in 2002. Armstrong says that he ended his professional relationship with Ferrari in 2004. But Italian investigators say that there is evidence Armstrong and his representatives continued making large payments to Ferrari through 2010.

As we said, Armstrong declined to appear in this story, so we've put together several things that he's said about doping in the past, in his own words.

This is 2001: "I have the facts on my side and that's what they don't know, what they've done is, they've written, as I said, they've written the conclusion and then they've tried to fill in the rest, with a house of cards and with speculation and with innuendo. Explain to me how we've passed so many tests if we're so dirty and they don't want to answer that question and that's not fair."

This is a news conference in 2004: "We got nothing to hide, we know that, everybody knows that, we've, we've proven time in and time out that that we're clean and I can tell you that the controls today in cycling in 2004 are a hell of a lot more than they ever were before and they're a lot more than any other sport."

And finally, Armstrong said this last year, when another former teammate, Floyd Landis, accused him of doping: "It's his word versus ours. We like our word, we like where we stand, we like our credibility."



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