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The 2008 Olympic and world road-race champion cyclist, Nicole Cooke, added her voice to the storm of criticism of Lance Armstrong saying he had stolen wins.

After more than a decade of denying that he doped to win the Tour de France seven times, Armstrong has sat down in a 90-minute, question-and-answer session with Oprah.

Speaking on Sky News, she said Armstrong's actions had stolen wins from honest riders who had ridden "clean".

"While Lance Armstrong and people like him have profited from the wins that they've robbed from people, there are so many people who aren't fortunate like myself to have been able to win clean and have success riding clean," Cooke explained.

"There are so many riders who have stayed true to their morals, have ridden clean, and never had the opportunity to stand on the top of the podium, or in some cases never even got onto breaking into the professional scene, and Lance Armstrong and people similar to him have taken away whole careers from people," she added.

Armstrong has never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and for a decade he strenuously denied doping and resorted to lawsuits to protect his reputation.

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