British cyclist Alex Dowsett believes Lance Armstrong remains "a legend of the sport" despite the doping accusations against the American.
The United States Anti-Doping Agency banned Armstrong for life and stripped him of his seven Tour de France titles.
Team Sky rider Dowsett, 24, said: "He is still a legend of the sport. A guy who had cancer came back and won the Tour de France.
"I think it's not really important and I really don't think it matters."
- Achievements of USPS/Discovery Channel pro cycling team accomplished through the most sophisticated, professional and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen
- Armstrong's career at the team was fuelled from start to finish by doping
- More than a dozen former team-mates, friends and former team employees confirm a fraudulent course of conduct
- Armstrong acted with the help of a small army of enablers, including doping doctors, drug smugglers and others within and outside the sport and his team
- He had ultimate control over not only his own personal drug use but over the doping culture of the team
- Team staff were good at predicting when testers would turn up and seemed to have inside information
- Evidence is beyond strong and as strong as any case brought by Usada in its existence
Armstrong, who has always denied doping but chose not to fight the doping charges filed against him, has been labelled a "serial" cheat and is accused of leading "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen".
Dowsett joined Team Sky for the 2011 season from the US-based Trek-LiveStrong squad - an under-23 development team created by Armstrong to nurture emerging talent.
He added: "All I know is that we all are racing clean. So, it was a different sport back then."
Fellow Brit Steve Cummings, who rides for BMC Racing, and like Dowsett, is competing in the Tour of Beijing, pointed out Armstrong had done a great deal for charity.
He said: "It is easy to say and point your finger on all the bad things but you could look at the good things he has done as well.
"He has done a lot good things, like his cancer charity, you know. When I met him, he was a nice guy to me."
Patrick Jonker, who rode alongside Armstrong in the US Postal Service Pro Cycling (USPS) team in 2000, believes his former team-mate cannot solely be to blame.
The Australian, who said he had never taking performance enhancing drugs, told BBC Sport: "Reading the report, Lance could not have acted as the sole power behind this.
"You would have to have the knowledge of a doctor to enforce that. To crucify Lance and only Lance would be wrong."
In an statement accompanying its report, Usada chief executive Travis T Tygart said there was "conclusive and undeniable proof" that Armstrong was a cheat who was at the heart of a team-run doping conspiracy.
The report has been sent to the International Cycling Union (UCI), the World Anti-Doping Agency and the World Triathlon Corporation.
Eleven of Armstrong's former team-mates have testified against him.
But Armstrong's lawyer Sean Breen has described Usada's report as a "one-sided hatchet job".
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