Under oath Tyler Hamilton testified and reiterated on Tuesday that his former team manager, Bjarne Riis, introduced him to Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes prior to the 2002 season.

Thus Hamilton repeated the allegations put forward in his 2012 book “The Secret Race” and Hamilton’s testimony marked the first time that Riis has been linked to Fuentes under oath.

The Dane has repeatedly denied ever meeting Fuentes, the Spanish doctor at the centre of the Operación Puerto doping ring now facing charges of “endangering public health” in a Spanish court.

Providing testimony via videoconference from the Spanish embassy in Washington, D.C., Hamilton said he worked with Fuentes from 2002 to 2004 after Riis proposed he hook up with the infamous Spanish doctor.

Hamilton’s exhilarating statement provided a glance into the doping universe of the Fuentes ring.

The former rider detailed how he spoke to Fuentes on the phone for the first time in January 2002 and met with him two months later to plan a doping and racing calendar.

“We met in a rest area along the highway in Spain,” he said according to Velonews.com. “We discussed doping products and a racing calendar. We talked about transfusions.”

Hamilton added an extensive list of products he received from Fuentes: EPO, human growth hormones, insulin, and testosterone.

Under cross examination from World Anti-Doping Agency attorneys, Hamilton also gave testimony to his negative reaction to a blood transfusion during the 2004 Tour de France, stating he felt feverish and unwell.

“The worst reaction was during the 2004 Tour de France. It was a reinfusion, as far as I could tell; the blood had been destroyed, it had not been properly handled,” he said. “The reason I knew that, because when I went to the bathroom 30 to 45 minutes later, my urine was black.”