Cycling: We're all into drugs says French cyclist

Disgraced French cyclist Philippe Gaumont claimed yesterday that 90 per cent of professional riders used performance-enhancing drugs.

The 1992 Olympic bronze medallist has admitted to taking the banned blood booster EPO in the ongoing scandal involving the elite French team Cofidis, but said it was not the riders he wanted penalised but the system itself.

"We are under enormous pressure from the sponsors, where we are compelled to get good results.