Armstrong Must Come Out Clean, Says Former Teammate

The man who helped tip the bucket on Lance Armstrong's doping network, Tyler Hamilton, hopes Armstrong clean as the damning evidence continues to pile up.

Hamilton won an Olympic gold medal before handing it back after himself admitting to doping and said he may likely have been "prepared to go to the grave" with his own secrets before being caught. Hamilton said there is probably a lot of money at stake if Lance comes out and tells the truth but he will lead a happier second half of his life by coming out clean.

Hamilton said he frequently used performance enhancing drugs and avoided testers and added that the reputation of cycling has taken a big hit with the Lance Armstrong doping scandal but things had improved. Tyler Hamilton further added that authorities should provide some kind of amnesty for those willing to accept their past wrongdoings. "But if there's some way to continue in the sport, like maybe serve a small penalty, come clean - which will be good for the future of the sport - and then be able to continue after a small penalty then I think that will encourage a lot of people to come out. "If we get a lot more people to come out, then moving forward the sport's going to be in a lot better place. We can't move 100 per cent in the right direction unless we know exactly what happened in the past."

Hamilton also reaffirmed his admiration for Aussie Tour de France champ Cadel Evans and said, "We were never teammates, you know I raced alongside of him for quite a long time and some of my ex-teammates, George Hincapie being one of them, had told me that Cadel was a super hardworker obviously, but he was clean."