Lizzie Armitstead: 'I'll have to accept that people will doubt me forever'

World champion Armitstead says she's struggling to come to terms with the ordeal of the last week's news about her Whereabouts Failures

Lizzie Armitstead says she'll have to come to terms with the fact people will always be sceptical about her career after the news about her Whereabouts Failures, but reaffirmed that she had never cheated in any way.

The world champion was talking to the BBC in Rio ahead of this weekend's Olympic road race, where she'll aim to take gold, but said the result won't do anything to change people's opinions and that she remains "devastated" by events since Monday.

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