Saturday 13 October 2012 13:18, UK
GreenEDGE Cycling sports director Matt White has stepped down from his position after admitting to taking part in doping during his time as a team-mate of Lance Armstrong with US Postal in the early 2000s.
"I stopped my racing career because I had the opportunity to be part of something that had the potential to actually change cycling," White said. "The ideas about a clean team that Dave Millar and Jonathan Vaughters spoke to me about back then, were ones that the sport desperately needed." White said he understood the criticism the sport had received but believes the culture is slowly changing. "As a sport, cycling has received a lot of criticism regarding doping and rightfully so - but certain teams have also lead the way in fighting an otherwise never-ending battle to ensure that professional cycling can stay clean," he said. "This battle starts from within and we have had great success in changing this in the current culture in our sport. "I am convinced that this battle will need constant monitoring and we must learn constructively from the past. "The approach that many riders of my generation had cannot be repeated, and I believe that cycling now has the most rigorous and complete testing regimes of any sport."
