There are plenty of people out there today who are still denying. Denial comes first and it lasts for a long time. "He's obviously going through a process, and typically the first part of the process is denial. Hamilton says that he is still hopeful that Armstrong will admit his part in a dark decade. If the sport was 80% clean at the time then a lot more people would have spoken out." "It's a good indicator of how dark this sport was that in the eight years I was part of the Tour de France there were only two riders who spoke out against the dopers – Christophe Bassons and Filippo Simeoni," said Hamilton. Hamilton, however, believes cycling needs to go further and set up a truth and reconciliation commission, with a "complete amnesty" for riders who have doped. One of the judges John Inverdale said the book had "fundamentally changed cycling", adding: "It's not a prerequisite of a book to change a sport, but this one did". But the world has flipped upside down and the reaction has been great." I lied and I did it for a long, long time. "The first interview we were asked: why should we believe you? You haven't told the truth in the past and Lance has always denied it," said Hamilton. Detail that bloodied cycling's code of omerta and Armstrong's reputation injection by injection, transfusion by transfusion. That journey, from testosterone pills to EPO – or "Edgar Allan Poe" to his team-mates – to the Frankenstein practice of blood doping, is retold in intimate detail. The Secret Race details how Hamilton – "the sort of everyman hero sportswriters used to invent in the 1950s: soft-spoken, handsome, polite and tough beyond conventional measure", according to his co-author, Coyle – went from wide-eyed wannabe into systematic doper while at Armstrong's US Postal Service team. But it's the truth and the truth needed to be told." "I'm really proud of writing this book but not what's in there. Hamilton, one of Armstrong's lieutenants in three of his Tour de France victories, said he was "truly humbled" to win.
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