Peter Sagan at the Eneco Tour (Watson)
A succession of doping scandals in the early 2000s made the German public highly sceptical of professional cycling, but with his move to the German Bora-Hansgrohe team, Peter Sagan has sought to explain how things have changed.
"What has happened, has happened. Now there is a new generation. We live like we're in prison," Sagan told Sportschau.de.
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