Bradley Wiggins: British Cycling saved me from same fate as Lance Armstrong Five of Armstrong's former team-mates who gave evidence against him received six-month bans yesterday as part of the plea bargain with the doping authorities. Tom Danielson, George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, Christian Vande Velde and David Zabriskie were all served with suspensions by USA Cycling and their results during the period they admitted to cheating will be annulled. Team Sky's directeur sportif Sean Yates insisted yesterday that he never saw anything untoward from Armstrong during their long working relationship but was "disappointed" and upset at what was revealed in the USADA report. Yates and Armstrong rode together for a year at Motorola in 1994 and he then worked with him at Discovery in 2005 and again in his comeback year with Astana in 2009, when Armstrong finished third in the Tour and, according to USADA, gave a number of positive tests for EPO. "It's all pretty damning for Lance and the whole history of his seven Tour wins and beyond," Yates admitted. My opinion is one of disappointment and slightly upset, really. I'm shocked at the depth of the whole system, as it's been called. I worked with Lance but never had any inclination this type of practice was going on. I was with Lance in 2005, for his last Tour win. Before that I was working with another team. I'd turn up, I'd drive the car in the Tour de France, and I never ever saw an indication of anything dodgy going on. I used to jump out in the morning, go out on my bike, go back, drive the car, and call the tactics now and then, but I never saw anything that was untoward. I knew him from when he was young and he became world champion. I just believed he was a physically superior being, and therefore that's why he was winning. He was also very, very determined and this damning report bears that out in varying degrees. My job was to make sure that the guys performed on the road, and did the right thing on the road. It was not to do with their training or anything else. Wiggins said he hoped the sport could move on: "It's pretty damning. There's a lot of it and I think the evidence is now overwhelming. In a way this brings an end to the investigation which has been going on for quite a few years. Maybe now, as a sport, we can move forward. My main concern is now I'm standing here as the winner of the Tour de France having to now pick up the pieces for other people's misdemeanours. It is certainly not a one-sided hatchet job, it is pretty damning. It is pretty jaw-dropping the amount of people who have testified against him. I am shocked at the scale of the evidence. Team Sky's young cyclist Alex Dowsett retreated on thursday night from earlier comments when he said the report had not changed his view of Armstrong. I don't think it really matters, he's still a legend in the sport. The guy survived cancer and came back to win the Tour de France. It's not really important. All I know is that we are racing clean and it was a different sport back then.