Yesterday the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released its 202-page report that chronicles Lance Armstrong’s use of performance enhancing drugs during his cycling career. According to the long-awaited report, Armstrong repeatedly beat drug testers with an elaborate, mafia-like system of doping doctors, drug mules, and payoffs to the sport’s governing body.
Cycling fans, however, got a good taste of Armstrong’s covert world last month when his former teammate Tyler Hamilton released a tell-all book, The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, And Winning at all Costs. Among other revelations, the book unearthed the secret language used by cyclists when discussing drugs. Armstrong, other cyclists, and doctors used this strange terminology to fool authorities should they come under investigation, according to Hamilton.
