To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.
Bisping is a clean athlete, and it comes down to whether you're clean or not. I'm totally against the use of drugs and steroids in the UFC and any performance enhancing drugs. Shows a lot about someone's mental state if they have to do that.
The things that I rely on, USADA doesn't have a problem with them. I'm gonna continue to be the same athlete that I've always been.
I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.
Everyone is on a fair playing field. It's safer for athletes, it's safer for the fighters - it's just a safer thing for fighters. So I think the USADA thing is good.
Let me make this clear: I think USADA has moved my sport forward in certain ways that I couldn't have imagined.
I'm for a drug-free sport and always will be.
I love the USADA.
Obviously, I believe in clean sport and want to do all that I can, but at the same time, you can only control yourself.
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.
We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.
Athletics set the right sentiment for a clean and believable sport.
If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it.
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.
It's very simple. We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight. Either baseball officials seriously want to rid their sport of doping, or they want to brush the issue under the carpet. So far, we haven't seen much evidence of the former.
USADA is wonderful, I think they're doing a remarkable job, and they do a remarkable job all around the world.
I've done whatever it takes to prove I am a clean athlete.
People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.
I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.
I want to give big kudos to USADA. Can it be better? Yeah.
I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
Going back to the '70s and '80s I was one of the athletes who believed in true sport. I never took medical supplements, believed in diet and exercising. I always represent clean athletes.
There's food and supplements that you can take legally that will better your body and help you stay healthy. Shortcuts are something that's always been around all sports, but as a union, we're trying to do the best we can to weed those guys out of the game.
I don't use PEDs or steroids, I have never used it and I've never had any problems in that area.
