^^ The thing is while Tyler is probably telling the truth now, he is such a snivelling little shit his credibility as a witness must be zero and Armstrong's team would be stupid not to capitalise on that. He didn't lie just once did he, his defense altered more than once from the moronic "I'm a good american boy" to the vile "it's my dead twin's blood" defenses.
Which is also the same problem with Landis, the lie was more than a simple denial. And what 12 months in, as it stands those two appear to be the main case against Armstrong, can't help but think that the prosecution really need someone with more credibility. All the other evidence appears circumstantial, sickens me to say it but i reckon Armstrong will bully and buy his way out of this.
Hamilton has changed his story after he was subpoeaned to appear in front of a Federal Grand Jury, knowing that if he lied he ran a very real risk of going to jail for perjury. Many other ex-USPS riders (Hincapie, Vaughters, Zabriskie, Andreu et al) also appeared before the same Grand Jury. If their evidence also includes widespread doping on that team then Armstrong is in serious trouble. He was a director of Tailwind Sports, and they were funded by US Federal Government money (the United States Postal Service is a government agency) and if it's shown this money was used to buy black market drugs then there's a case for conspiracy to defraud the government. Government's don't like tend to like that.
Hamilton has changed his story after he was subpoeaned to appear in front of a Federal Grand Jury, knowing that if he lied he ran a very real risk of going to jail for perjury. Many other ex-USPS riders (Hincapie, Vaughters, Zabriskie, Andreu et al) also appeared before the same Grand Jury. If their evidence also includes widespread doping on that team then Armstrong is in serious trouble. He was a director of Tailwind Sports, and they were funded by US Federal Government money (the United States Postal Service is a government agency) and if it's shown this money was used to buy black market drugs then there's a case for conspiracy to defraud the government. Government's don't like tend to like that.