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This is a dispiriting day for cycling

By Bonnie D. Ford
ESPN.com

Friday, April 17, 2009

It felt incongruous listening to Tyler Hamilton the past two days as he admitted guilt and in the process admitted a kind of defeat. Hamilton was renowned for his never-say-die attitude and, despite his low-key personality, drama trailed him as noisily as a baseball card stuck into the spokes of a bike's back wheel. He finished second in the 2002 Tour of Italy with a wrecked shoulder and fourth in the 2003 Tour de France with a fractured collarbone. He fought his first doping offense with all ...

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