I Know What Happened To

I Have Never Doped … I Have Competed As An Endurance Athlete For 25 Years With No Spike In Performance, Passed More Than 500 Drug Tests And Never Failed One.

Nobody Wants To Hear How I Think I've Been Mistreated, Or How I Think My Punishment Should Be Lifted, Or Tweaked, Or Reduced. Nobody Wants To Hear Me Say That, Nobody Cares What I Think About This. I Get It.

When I Made The Decision - When My Team-mates Made That Decision, When The Whole Peloton Made That Decision - It Was A Bad Decision And An Imperfect Time. But It Happened.

Chasing Records Doesn't Keep Me On My Bike. Happiness Does.

I Am Flawed, Deeply Flawed. I Didn't Invent The [doping] Culture But I Didn't Try To Stop The Culture And That's My Mistake, And That's What I Have To Be Sorry For.