Drugs scandal 'will help cycling'

Double Olympic gold medallist Geraint Thomas says the Lance Armstrong doping scandal will help clean up the sport in the long run.

Armstrong has been banned for life and stripped of seven Tour de France titles between 1999 and 2005 for doping.

Cardiff's Thomas admits the scandal has tarnished cycling but says the sport is now cleaning up its act.

"I think it will help the sport in the long run to clean up some of the rough edges it's got," Thomas said.

"It's sad the things that happened back then have tarnished the people doing it now.

"Cycling's changed a hell of a lot since then with the out-of-competition testing and all the blood testing.

Geraint Thomas won his second Olympic gold at London 2012

"I'll quite happily say that it's one of the cleanest sports around at the minute, I would have thought."

Armstrong has been stripped of all results since 1 August, 1998 and banned for life.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has accepted the findings of the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (Usada) investigation into systematic doping.

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Drugs scandal 'will help cycling'