If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.
David Millar
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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It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (..) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.
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I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.
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Preparation was a term I was to hear more and more. It had another more sinister meaning. If you were prepared, it meant you were doped.
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