Armstrong faces new doping claim

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19 May 2011 Last updated at 21:02 ET

A former teammate of cyclist Lance Armstrong has said 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 both men used EPO during the 1999 Tour.

Lance Armstrong, who has always denied such claims , said on his Twitter page: “Never a failed test. I rest my case.”

Hamilton served a two-year ban for 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.”

Allegations of the use of banned substances by members of the US Postal team are still the subject of an federal investigation in the United States.

Armstrong has always vehemently denied that he ever used banned substances and he has never failed a drugs test.

He won the Tour de France for seven consecutive years from 1999-2005.

He returned to ride in the 2009 race, but earlier this year the 39-year-old announced that he has retired from competitive cycling for good.

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Armstrong faces new doping claim