Mark Cavendish believes cycling will always be tarnished by the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, but it is now one of the cleanest sports in the world.

Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles in 2013, but is still among the most talked about people in the sport. Lance Armstrong was my idol but I became Tour de France legend in ‘cleanest sport in the world’

Cycling had a widespread doping culture that dogged the sport for decades, before culminating in the downfall of the American.

Doping allegations dogged Armstrong ever since his 1999 Tour win. Eventually whistleblowers and investigations found he was the ringleader in the ‘most sophisticated drugs cheating programme in sports history’.

Endless articles, books, documentaries and films were made about the scandal an

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