You have to cheat to win Tour-Armstrong

Drug cheater Lance Armstrong claims it is “impossible to win the Tour de France without doping”.And the disgraced American has accused Spain’s biggest football clubs of getting in the way of anti-doping.Armstrong is not going away quietly after 12 months in which he has been shamed by drug revelations made by United States Anti-Doping Agency.Just 24 hours before the start of the Tour de France, the seven-time winner, who had his victories erased, has come out with the allegations.Dave Brailsford’s Team Sky — home to 2012 winner Bradley Wiggins and this year’s favorite Chris Froome — pride themselves on winning in cycling the clean way. But

Armstrong, 41, said: “It is impossible to win the Tour de France without doping.“Because the Tour is an  endurance test, where oxygen is decisive.”Armstrong also called last summer’s USADA report which led to his downfall “bulls, compared to the Spanish drug scandal.Anti-doping campaigners were outraged as a Spanish judge in May ordered 200 blood bags belonging to Madrid-based doctor Eufemiano Fuentes to be destroyed.Campaigners have alleged the blood bags would implicate cheating cyclists as well as athletes from other sports.

Armstrong added: “I’m sure some great football clubs have had an influence on this decision.“Anyway, it is still cycling, which was held to be solely responsible.“We saw that the Puerto affair was a hundred times more sophisticated. Our system was very simple, very conservative, and not evil.“The ‘reasoned decision’ of the USADA has perfectly succeeded in destroying the life of a man, but has not taken in all of cycling.”