We've given out a general comfort statement to the [TV] broadcasters saying you're the ones who brought us to the dance, so we'll do everything we can to protect those rights.

Using EPO [the performance-enhancing drug erythropoietin] and some of these things are pretty sophisticated doping activities. It's not just done by a cyclist acting on his own. I don't think there's a basis for their complaint.

If anything were found, we couldn't do anything because we didn't even exist in 1999, It's important that the truth must always be made clear.

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

I said, 'Please, you don't have to offer me a million bucks. I want to do this cause it's right for the Olympics,'.

Any information whatsoever about this submission.

We are working with leading genetic scientists day by day. People may try and use that method but we will be ready for them with a test.

All this cheating goes on under the supposedly watchful eyes of cycling officials, who loudly proclaim that their sport is drug-free and committed to remaining so. Based on performance, they should not be allowed outdoors without white canes and seeing-eye dogs.

In future years we have to assume that there will be somebody out there who will be willing to do it.