I’d just killed some of the best riders in the world – and I was clean. I’d taken nothing – no EPO, no cortisone, no testosterone, no painkillers, no caffeine. I had justified to myself that I was a great rider without drugs – yet perversely given myself the green light to dope again. I’d proved what I could do clean – how much more could I do if I was doped?

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