Jan Ullrich insists cycling is now doping free

That'd be the Marcel Kittel:

• who used to lie on a bed watching his blood being removed and put through some homeopathic UV treatment, before being re-infused
• who was given an anti-doping sanction by his federation for this
• who took this all the way to CAS/TAS
• who CAS let off on the technicality that the WADA rules at that time required the banned
  blood manipulation to be /effective/, and there was no scientific evidence that UV treatment was
• because of whom WADA went and updated the WADA anti-doping code

Now that was a young Marcel Kittel, 19 or so, I guess vulnerable to going along with whatever his coaching staff said was needed. However, it's the same Marcel Kittel who only a few years ago, aged 24 or 25 or so, said in an interview he had /never/ seen anything /like/ doping happen. That means Kittel doesn't think that watching your blood being taken out, treated, and then re-infused is anything like doping - and we can reasonably assume he'd be fine with autologous blood infusions.

The clean new generation!

drosco - what you're watching now is a peleton microdosing epo and taking cortigosteroids continually out of competition. this leads to different style of racing compared to previous era when certain riders would take massive dose of epo for a certain stage.

Pro cyclists are screened enough.   If the anti-doping regime doesn't find anything then that's good enough and is the end of it.  Even if there is a bit of doping going undetected I don't care - they are tested and punished far more severely than other athletes and they sacrifice far more for far less remuneration and fame.The constant bloody speculation and witch hunt by the press and social media "experts" does nothing for the sport.

To me, Grand Tours don't look like they used to. The days of riders putting a couple of minutes into each other on the final climb are over. All the team leaders are much of a muchness and everyone looks like they're suffering. If not drug free, it's a world away from the days of too good to be true performances.

Its not a question of belief. Quite clearley there is doping as we saw recently with trek rider Andre Segafredo.I still cant understand how that got swept under the carpet.All hell would have broken loose if he was a sky rider.

If you believe that there's no doping in cycling, then I've got a bridge I can sell you 

The headline doesn't represent what he says, one is probably lying right, the other is bollocks!