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During the interview, Hamilton talked effusively about the hypocrisy in the sport. His first example came from after his own doping comeback during the 2008 Tour of Georgia when he heard through the grapevine that a "prominent team director" had announced on race radio "here comes Fuentes' client" as Hamilton was chasing back through the team cars.
It has since been suggested that the outspoken man in question was the DS of the Chipotle-Slipstream team – a man who is now (quite rightly) feted as one of the biggest anti-doping campaigners in cycling, but one who, at the
time of the incident, had not yet come clean about his own misdemeanours alongside Lance Armstrong at US Postal.
In the same year, Hamilton and two other Rock Racing riders (Oscar Sevilla and Santiago Botero) sidelined from the race because of the ongoing investigation into Operacion Puerto were heckled by a "prominent rider" at the Tour of California, which they had attended to support their team-mates and sign autographs for fans."These guys shouldn't be at the event," the rider in question told the press before outlining their involvement in Puerto.
The next day, Hamilton recalls that his Rock Racing team-mates in the race surrounded this rider in the peloton and heckled him: "Hey Luigi. Luigi, f*** you," they said.
Hamilton's anecdote send many journalists scurrying into the archives where, from a piece on the 2008 Tour of California in Cycling Weekly, they discovered that Fabian Cancellara – funnily enough in an interview in which we was primarily talking about the welcome comeback of Mario Cipollini – admitted that he had "a problem with some other riders [who] think they can ride their bikes and be at the start line but they still have problems on their shoulders and that is not good for our sport".
"They really have to think about what they did and not be here to make a show," he added. Although he wouldn't name any names, Cancellara said: "I think everybody knows who I'm talking about."
And it now seems, if you put two and two together, that we all now know who Fuentes' client list was talking about when it mentioned 'No.24 – Clasicomano Luigi'.