Great race report
Like I already wrote on another thread about the Silverman, I was not a tyler fan before. Until what I saw yesterday. Now I pull for him. The past is the past, nor is it my place to judge another.
Just as Dave Scott said the Silverman bike course is the toughest he has ever done, hear it again from Tyler.
I agree. Were only others as forgiving . . .
I like when he says the competitors were “the tough guys of triathlon.”
It’s true. So many clamor to get into the M-dot races and leave the “tough” races to others. Silverman is a tough course and they should do well next year attracting more people.
VegasTrilete,
Thanks for the head’s up and the link. I enjoyed the read. Always was a TH fan, although disappointed by two of his choices, 1. PEDs.
He slipped another notch when, at least in my judgement, he lied protesting his innocence only to have his 2003 “doping diary” come to light.
I would rather he admitted his responsibility, like David Millar did, serve his penalty and see him back riding/racing again. As a result of his choices, he will be serving his penalty, but his professional cycling career seems pretty much over (probable lifetime suspension).
Hey, we all make mistakes sometime in our lives. Its what we do after that demonstrates our character.
He is still an incredible cycling talent and its great to see him riding well.
Interesting read…thanks for the link.
Not to hijack your thread, but after reading that he has signed a contract, and after seeing him riding a Cervelo P3C with Easton bars, I’m wondering if he is going to Tinkoff (as reported earlier) or if he’s signed with Toyota United. Don’t they ride the Cervelo P3C for Time Trials?
I like the guy too. Guilty or not, he’s been out for 2 years and deserves another chance. I’ll be rooting for him this year wherever he ends up.
What a great report! Though someone should tell Tyler that he needs to change it to “ironman-distance” before the WTC gets all hinky with him.
Love this line: or getting a flat that I would have had to fix on my own.
You forget about things like this! That would have been funny if he’d had to fix his own flat.
clm
“hinky” … like that… I’ll have to borrow it ;-0
wonder how fast he would have went with no wind?
wow
On the audio interview on the Silverman site, he says he wants to do an IM someday.
Ironclm-I had the exact same reaction to that line-very funny, indeed. plus all the eating decisins and stuff he had to put in his jersey
Yes, and it’s a national recreation area, not a national park. Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
Ben,
I agree. I wish he had done as David Millar did.
But he didn’t. I guess once you start a lie, you only keep digging a bigger hole. Until it can get so big, there is no turning back. A good lesson for all.
But that doesn’t mean he didn’t learn a lesson nor have regret for not doing what he probably wishes he had. For what he did for his team yesterday, I give him the above to his credit.
Conrad
Ben,
I agree. I wish he had done as David Millar did.
But he didn’t. I guess once you start a lie, you only keep digging a bigger hole. Until it can get so big, there is no turning back. A good lesson for all.
But that doesn’t mean he didn’t learn a lesson nor have regret for not doing what he probably wishes he had. For what he did for his team yesterday, I give him the above to his credit.
Conrad
I have not been keeping up-to-date on TH. Is he still proclaiming his innocence?
I’ve never been much of a Tyler fan, but that was a great race report and I truly feel that his team was totally shafted yesterday. What a disappointment for everyone.
On another note about Tyler; I was at the race, saw him in person and I must say he is WAY cute.
“I have not been keeping up-to-date on TH. Is he still proclaiming his innocence?”
Taken from Tyler’s website:
http://www.tylerhamilton.com/qa2236.html
From Kelly/Utah:: Tyler, It is time to quit playing the game that so many professional athletes have been and are still playing - taking steriods or blood doping and getting caught and then denying that they did anything wrong. If the phantom twin defense was your best defense, then you didn’t have a chance. Just admit it and move on and we’ll still be behind you!
Tyler: Thanks for taking the time to voice your opinion on my website. Just to set the record straight, the authors of the homologous blood test methodology listed a handful of instances where the test could register a false positive. One of them was chimerism which stems in some case from the vanishing twin phenomenon. It sounds like a wacky prospect on the surface, but it’s a real enough phenomenon that the scientists who invented the test listed it as a cause for concern.
Never, ever once, during my defense did I claim to have a vanishing twin. However, we did point out that since the authors of the test methodology never did a false positive study that they could not conclusively rule test results indicating mixed populations were actually mixed populations. It’s a standard practice in the scientific community for researchers to determine the false positive rate for every test. Every test fails to a certain degree. However, in this case, the authors of the test did not have the time, materials or funding to conduct a false positive study. So, they were never able to determine the rate at which the test does actually fail.
What we do know is that 10-15 other athletes have generated false positive test results while the HBT test was in use in 2004. They believe it was either faulty equipment or poor performing materials used to run the test that generated those results, and never charged the athletes.
Somehow the media ran with the story that my defense was based on chimerism and vanishing twin - however, this is simply not the case. My defense was based on the fact that my test results were conflicting lab to lab and test to test, we uncovered documents from the labs who ran my tests stating they did not believe the test was being implemented properly and that there were concerns about time, funding and materials and finally, the expert testimony of the world’s most credible scientists who stated the test was incomplete and the results were false positives. One of my witnesses even defected from the initial scientific team to state the test was inadequate and the results were meaningless.
I’m sorry you feel frustration toward my case and situation, however, you should also know that I will never admit to doing something I didn’t do. Not today, not ever. But I appreciate your letting me respond, and hope I’ve been informative.
That’s a good read and as much as I dislike doping in sport and whatever has happened in this case I have to say that Tyler seems like a super nice guy. I never thought I’d say this but it’s actually hard not to pull for someone like that.
Great race report.
Like a few others here, I’m still a TH fan - despite his flaws. He strikes me as a tragic hero. There is no getting around how gutsy and talented he is. He’s won the Mount Washington hill climb, and finished 4th in the TDF with a broken collarbone. In my opinion, that buys him a lot of slack.
Bjorn, I have to agree with you. I was a huge TH fan before and still am now…hard not to pull for him. However, I think my support for him would be back to the “pre Olympic days” if he just admitted and forward like Millar.
By the way, I hope to see you and Team Sweden back for Silverman 2007. As a tri fan, that was quite exciting following you guys racing. Keep up the good work!
Dev