THIS WEEK IN PRO CYCLING
Tyler Hamilton
Key Stats
Palmares
1st, Olympic Individual Time Trial 2004
4th overall, Tour de France 2003
1st, Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2003
2nd overall, Giro d’Italia 2002
1st overall, Dauphiné Libéré 2000
1st overall, Tour of Denmark 1999
2007
6th, USPRO Time Trial Championship
2004
1st, Olympic Individual Time Trial
1st overall, Tour de Romandie (1 stage win)
2nd overall, Dauphiné Libéré
2003
1st, Liège-Bastogne-Liège
1st overall, Tour de Romandie
1st, stage 16, Tour de France
4th overall, Tour de France
2nd overall, Vuelta al Pais Vasco
2nd, Prologue, Paris-Nice
2002
1st, CSC Gran Prix
1st, stage 14, Giro d’Italia
4th overall, Tour of Denmark
2001
3rd, Prologue, Tour de Suisse
3rd, stage 8, Tour de Suisse
8th overall, Bicicleta Vasca
2000
1st overall, Dauphiné Libére (2 stage wins)
Biography
Hamilton entered collegiate cycling at the age of 18 after a broken back cut short his competitive downhill skiing career. After rising through the amateur ranks, he became a professional cyclist in 1995 and began riding for the Montgomery Bell team, which became the U.S. Postal Service team in 1996. Following his Olympic gold medal in the individual time trial at the Athens Games in 2004, Hamilton tested positive for homologous blood doping at the Vuelta a España. He returned to competition in 2007 as a member of the Tinkoff Credit Systems squad. Contract disputes limited his race participation and the rider from Marblehead, Massachusetts has signed with Rock Racing for 2008.