Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins have joined the $50,000 per person training week held by Lance Armstrong and his podcast 'The Move' in Mallorca. Cyclists could apply for a place on the week-long cycling trip and if they were chosen they paid the fee.
Cavendish and Wiggins were star turns, rather than paying guests, on the trip hosted by Armstrong, who is banned from cycling for life for doping. His former manager, Johan Bruyneel, who is also banned for life for his role in the US Postal Team's doping practices, was also on the week away. Also part of the line-up was George Hincapie, who served a six-month doping ban after agreeing to cooperate with US Anti-Doping Agency investigators.
The $50,000 price tag for the trip included accommodation and those who went on the cycling week also got to ride with Armstrong, Hincapie, Cavendish, Wiggins and Ullrich. The Move podcast about the World Road Championships in Wollongong was also broadcast from Mallorca and featured Armstrong, Hincapie, Cavendish, Ullrich and Bruyneel.
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In 2012, when Wiggins was Tour de France champion, the USADA investigation into Armstrong published its findings and the American was stripped of his seven Tour wins as well as being banned from cycling for life. Wiggins said at the time he was "shocked at the scale of the evidence" against Armstrong.
"It's pretty damning stuff," Wiggins told Sky News at the time, a decade ago. "It is pretty jaw-dropping the amount of people who have testified against him. It is certainly not a one-sided hatchet job, it is pretty damning. I am shocked at the scale of the evidence.
"I have been involved in pro cycling for a long time and I realise what it takes to train and win the Tour de France. I'm not surprised by it … I had a good idea what is going on."
