Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.
David MillarTag: purity encouragement sports betrayal support doping
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.
David MillarTag: life inspirational success death racing failure achievements sports doping
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.
David MillarTag: inspirational life-lessons doping
If the riders, governing bodies, teams, race organisers and media weren't doing anything about it, then what the hell could I, a 20-year-old neo-pro from Scotland, do about it?
David MillarOne group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.
David MillarI had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.
David MillarTag: happiness purity sports clean doping
I was not a doper, I told myself - I just injected myself to recover and needed pills to sleep.
David MillarTag: pain sport david-millar racing-through-the-dark doping
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?
David MillarTag: inspirational success pain self drugs doping
I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.
David MillarTag: inspirational doubt change sports doping
I discovered when I went all out, when I put 100 percent of my energy into some intense, impossible task - when my heart was jack-hammering, when lactic acid was sizzling through my muscles - that's when I felt good, normal, balanced.
Tyler HamiltonTag: cycling doping lance-armstrong
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