Could this be a new beginning for cycling? The USADA has released it's reasoned decision on Lance Armstrong and doping, and it makes depressing reading. But could it also, finally, mark a new era of completely clean and honest cycling? We have been here before. Cycling was supposed to clean itself up after the Festina scandal of 1998. The man that was supposed to be the hero of this new pure cycling era was, of course, Lance Armstrong . The cancer survivor who, against the odds, came back to professional bike racing and won the 1999 Tour de France. And then six more straight. Many of us loved this 'Hollywood' story. We read his books, we bought his wristbands, we started riding road bikes, we believed in him. Not everyone believed though -- Sunday Times journalist David Walsh for one. Former pro, and author of the seminal Rough Ride Paul Kimmage for another. They questioned Armstrong's methods, accused him of wrongdoing. Thanks to the work of Walsh and Kimmage, though, many of us started to feel that the Armstrong fairytale story was starting to look just that -- a fairytale. The USADA report means that it now resembles something from the Brothers Grimm. As is the way I've been following reaction on social media networks. I'd say that the overwhelming response has been one of resigned acceptance that USADA have a very good case. Some, though, still hang on to the fact that Armstrong never -- officially at least --