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In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.

I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.

Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.

If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.

I have the impression that cycling is no longer a game but rather an employment... a job.

Cycling is open to the whole world.

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

Everyone in the world of cycling knows how much it is a team sport as well as individual. It's just amazing to be a part of.

There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing.

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.