Lance Armstrong used drugs, claims former team-mate

A former team-mate of cyclist Lance Armstrong has claimed the seven-time Tour de France winner used the performance-enhancing drug EPO.

Tyler Hamilton rode with Armstrong in the US Postal team and says they both used EPO during the 1999 Tour.
Armstrong, who has consistently denied the many such allegations made against him, said on his Twitter page: "Never a failed test. I rest my case."

Hamilton, 40, served a two-year ban for so-called blood-doping from 2005-2007.

"I saw [EPO] in his refrigerator... I saw him inject it more than one time," Hamilton told the CBS programme 60 Minutes, "like we all did. Like I did, many, many times."