Fabian Cancellara was in Oudenaarde today 🌠to w🐽elcome a new supporters club at the Centrum van de Ronde van Vlaanderen - a museum devoted to the Tour of Flanders.

The winner of the 2010 edition of the race took time out of the celebration to speak about the tumultuous time that the sport of cycling is going through in the wake of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:doping case of Lance Armstrong.

"We are going through a difficult period," he told Sporza.be. "B𒁃ut cycling will never die, This sport is much too beautiful."

Cancellara is currently part of the RadioShack-Nissan team, having been absorbed by the merger between Leopard Trek and the team of Johan Bruyneel, who still faces his own arbitration in the US Anti-Doping Agency's case of doping conspiracy. Bruyneel was for🎃ced out of the organis😼ation last month after the release of USADA's r🌠easoned decision that detailed🦂 the coordinated doping of the US Postal Service team under the Belgian.

T🦩he Swiss rider hopes that people can finally close the ch꧑apter on the sport's doping past, "and get away from that negativity".

"We no longer have to go back to the time when doping was like drinking water," he😼 said. "I will not go into details about what has happened in the past. I am not a judge."

Cancellara is already foc♛used on the coming season, in which he hopes to return to the top of the podiu𓆉m in the Classics.

"I'm looking forward to 2013," he said. "I have bee🅰n at a camp in the Alps at about 3500 meters. That was the symbolic start of my new season."

After a difficult 2012 which included a crash in the Tour of Flanders that left him with a shattered collarbone, a return to form for 𓄧the Tour de France and Olympic Games but then another crash in the road race that left him out of contention for any medals, Cancellara said he is recovered on all levels.

"Mentally I am certainly ready, and everything is good o🏅n physical level. I want to be there at 100%; I also believe in the power of t𝔉he RadioShack team."