Tyler Hamilton and the Truth Behind Lance Armstrong
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Tyler Hamilton spent years competing at the highest level of professional cycling, including riding alongside Lance Armstrong at the peak of his Tour de France career. As one of Armstrong’s teammates on the U.S. Postal Service cycling team, he saw firsthand how widespread doping in cycling had become. Eventually, he chose to speak publicly about what was happening inside the sport, helping expose one of the biggest scandals in sports history. Here's Tyler with his story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.6 | And we continue with our American stories. |
| 0:19.2 | Former Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton rocked the world of professional |
| 0:23.7 | cycling and exposed the doping culture surrounding the sport and its most iconic writer, Lance Armstrong. |
| 0:32.4 | As one of the world's top-ranked cyclist and a member of Lance Armstrong's inner circle, |
| 0:38.6 | Hamilton has quite an amazing story of his own and is here to share it with us. Let's take a listen. |
| 0:45.8 | My name's Tyler Hamilton. I live here in Missoula, Montana. I grew up in Marble Ed, Massachusetts. |
| 0:52.1 | Great family. Older brother, older sister, loved the outdoors and loved to spend time out in nature. |
| 1:00.1 | First, it was my love for skiing that kind of got me excited of being outdoors and became a ski racer. |
| 1:07.1 | After an accident with the University of Colorado ski team, I broke my back and then started my cycling career kind of by accident. |
| 1:15.6 | It happened fast. I was a bit of a late bloomer in cycling, but I've always had like a high pain threshold. |
| 1:21.6 | I think I was born with it. I don't know. My parents are tough. My grandparents were tough. And so I think that was the biggest asset that I had as a bike racer just, you know, |
| 1:32.1 | that never give up mentality and just, you know, don't listen to the pain. |
| 1:38.3 | Growing up in Marbley, Massachusetts in the 70s was pretty awesome. I was born in 71. |
| 1:45.9 | Yeah, my parents didn't really put many demands on my brother or sister at all. |
| 1:50.6 | You know, I mean, they like just trying to do well in school and working hard. |
| 1:54.9 | They liked us competing in sports if we were interested in it. |
| 1:58.0 | But whether or not we were successful in sports, it didn't matter. It didn't matter. You know, the most important thing for them was, you know, being honest, being a good sport, and just being, you know, transparent. My dad said, if we did have a family crest, it would probably be, you know, honesty. And yeah, I got in trouble here and there, but it was, I got in a lot of trouble |
| 2:18.3 | when I was dishonest, a lot of trouble. It was really exciting to get my first pro contract. |
| 2:25.8 | I signed it in the fall of 1994. It was the original postal team. It was under a different |
| 2:33.7 | title sponsor then, but it was the original U.S. postal team. It was under a different title sponsor then, |
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