While it was announced a possible reduction of the sanction against Lance Armstrong, the former seven-time winner of the Tour de France expressed today in French media. 

Since his confession about doping, he is rare in media. But this Wednesday, according to the newspaper Ouest France, he told about his past: "I ​​confessed. Need I say more? I said on television that I had to say. I now struggle with the consequences of these statements. It's a long tunnel which I hope to release sooner or later."

The former rider, now forced to stay away from the cycling world because of his lifetime ban, discovers the joys of retirement and not talking way back in the bike world: "I don't follow the results. From time to time, I read the newspaper or I surf the internet, but I do not look at it in particular. This is not because it is something painful, it's just because I turned the page. Needless to say that the end of my career was complicated. It is even still a sacred mess ... I moved away from it naturally."

The rider said that he like France, where he has seen his "greatest achievements", his seven wins and insolent domination: "I have always loved being at home, even at the height tensions around the doping scandals. I lived most of my career and I enjoyed every minute spent in France. I left in 2012, when I returned to Paris for the last time in 2013, I almost feel back to my second home."