Hamilton's book scoops William Hill book award

The 2012 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award has been won by former Tour de France rider Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle with “The Secret Race”, which exposes the culture of doping in professional cycling.

American Hamilton was a time-trial gold medallist at the 2004 Olympics but subsequently received a two-year ban after a failed drug test at the 2004 Vuelta a Espana.

After a successful return to riding, he was suspended for eight years and forced into retirement in 2009 for a similar offence.

A team-mate of Lance Armstrong on the US Postal Service team during the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Tour de France, Hamilton lifts the lid on his time in the sport in a book which the judges hailed as “a landmark publication”.