Armstrong case can 'clean-up' sport: Wiggins
- Published: 7 Feb 2013 at 20.44
- Online news: Sports
Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins says he thinks Lance Armstrong's doping confession is catastrophic but will serve to make the sport cleaner in the future.
Seven-time Tour de France winner and Kazakh cycling team Astana's Lance Armstrong of the United States listens to the countdown before competing in the Tour de France race on July 23, 2009. Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins says he thinks Armstrong's doping confession is catastrophic but will serve to make the sport cleaner in the future.
Armstrong, a seven-time winner of the Tour de France himself, was stripped of his titles after the International Cycling Union accepted a United States Anti-Doping Agency report that he had doped when winning his seven Tours between 1999 and 2005.
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