There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.