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

When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.

Giving up was never an option

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

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.