Mark Cavendish (Etixx-QuickStep) has said that he doesn’t think the recent report from the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) has brought anything new to the table. The CIRC spent a year looking into the murky history of the sport and spoke to a number of people from the past and present world of cycling but Cavendish believes much of it was already public knowledge.
“To be brutally honest, I don’t think that there is anything particularly new in there. I think that it is all the shit that’s been out there in the last few years just compiled into one document that gives people something else to talk about the past of cycling like it’s the present,” Cavendish said during a conference call following the announcement he would compete at this year’s Prudential RideLondon.
“It’s a little bit frustrating, that would be an understatement to say it’s a bit frustrating. I think modern cycling is cleaning up and I’m racing in a better playing field in the sport that I love and I’ll continue to be happy with that.”
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A total of 174 people spoke to the commission throughout the year-long investigation but few of those were current professionals and no new admissions of doping came from it. Following the release of the findings on March 9, several riders and anti-doping advocates said that they had heard nothing from the CIRC. Cavendish told reporters that he hadn’t been approached by the investigation and feels that it doesn’t represent the modern peloton.
“I wasn’t asked at all and I think there’s quotes in there that I know 95 percent of the peloton know that there is one rider that will have said certain comments and the other five percent won’t know that rider and couldn’t comment on it. There’s certain comments from ‘one reliable source’ don’t mean anything,” said Cavendish. “To be honest, I don’t spend not even a small amount of time looking at the cycling press and maybe that’s where it was. I don’t know.”
Unfinished business in London
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