Roche hopes for ‘clean’ races

FORMER Tour de France winner Stephen Roche believes a new generation of cyclists will herald an end to the era of doping scandals in the sport.

Stars Alexandre Vinokourov and Michael Rasmussen, both aged 33, have both left the trouble-hit Tour in the past week.

“It’s a matter of the generation that is going off at the moment — the 32 and 33-year-old guys — getting out of the peloton as fast as they can.