DailyPeloton has posted Part I and Part II of their interview with Tyler Hamilton. I thought it was worth a read, even if it is a bit soft. It's hard for me to figure out how I feel about the Hamliton case, which I think is the problem with the whole affair to begin with. I believe that Hamilton is right when he accuses the UCI of running a test that was poorly validated by a lab that was unaccredited. I think that if we as fans have to take a dramatic story like Hamilton's 2003 Tour de France broken-collarbone ride and leave it on the cutting room floor, then there should be no doubt in our minds that the test was well run. Instead, the integrity of the testing programs is put into doubt by accusations like Hamilton's as well as recent cases like the UCI suspending the manager of its health department for intentionally leaking confidential data. We as fans get cheated because such a testing program could never eliminate doubt and athletes cannot neither be fully incriminated nor fully exonerated.
