Lance Armstrong has said the French police investigation into doping in his US Postal Service team is "a joke" and will never discover anything. "I think the case has been a joke from the beginning," Armstrong said.
"Nowhere would have a case been started on those grounds but in Paris they did. They knew the evidence was clean but kept the case open and so it continued to be a joke," Armstrong said. "As I said a few weeks ago, the case is not finished yet, they can keep it open but there is nothing there."
Asked if he felt vindicated by the investigation, Armstrong said there was a growing group of cynics who do not believe that the best athletes in the world are clean. "I don't know if our sport will ever be vindicated. I think it's much bigger than me," he said.
Filed by Sinéad Kissane
