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Years ago, during an interview, he turned the tables and asked me how I felt about the 50-game suspension that the prodigious home-run hitter Manny Ramirez had received for violating baseball’s rules on performance-enhancing drugs.

And speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, the 45-year-old Briton said that since his retirement in 2016 Armstrong, who was stripped of seven Tour de France titles for using performance-enhancing drugs, had supported him.

The Enhanced Games - a controversial new event which promotes banned performance-enhancing drugs - says one of its athletes has beaten a long-standing world record.

Enhanced Games officials say that by bringing the use of performance-enhancing drugs into the open and under the guidance of doctors, their event will be safer than conventional sport.

He said the American, who was stripped of seven Tour de France titles for using performance-enhancing drugs, had "worried about me for a long time" and that Armstrong speaks to Wiggins' son Ben - also a professional cyclist - "a lot" about his father.