Lance Armstrong believes that cycling's guardians are ultimately to blame for the doping culture that pervaded the sport during the era when he won seven Tour de France titles.
In an extensive interview with the BBC, the 43-year-old says that he still feels like he won those seven yellow jerseys, even though he was subsequently stripped of the titles after being exposed as the ring-leader of the most sophisticated doping conspiracy in the history of the sport.
However, Armstrong believes that everything that he done since confessing to doping should pave the way for him to be forgiven and for the lifting of the US Anti-Doping Agency's ban from competitive sport.
In the interview that is to form part of a full-length documentary, Armstrong says that he is not sure that he would do anything differently:
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