June 24th, 2013
07:49 PM ET
Cycling faces watershed of credibility
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- CNN's Changing Gear series spoke to 2012 Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins. Unfortunately the Briton was forced to withdraw from this year's race.
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- It has been a tough year for UCI president Pat McQuaid following Lance Armstrong's fall from grace.
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- British cyclist David Millar knows more than most about doping in cycling. The British Garmin Sharp rider was banned for two years in 2004 after taking performance-enhancing drugs.
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- Lance Armstrong's legacy still looms large over the Tour de France.
How much of an impact do you think the Lance Armstrong scandal over the last few years has had is the question I put to British cycling star Mark Cavendish.
Cavendish stares from behind his sunglasses. There is a stony silence before he smirks and, six seconds later, finally shrugs and replies, "I don’t know. I think it’s had more of an effect on you journalists trying to make a story out of it than on the actual riders.”
It doesn’t reflect that well on him –- or me for that matter. But my chat with Mark Cavendish at last month's Giro D’Italia summed up pretty early on in our filming for CNN's Changing Gear series the current view within cycling of the events of the last 12 months. FULL POST
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