Bjarne Riis: If I fail again, put me in jail

Bjarne Riis at the Tour Down Under with NTT (Image credit: Getty Images)

Bjarne Riis believes he deserves another chance in professional cycling as he takes up the role of team manager and part owner of the NTT Pro Cycling team, promising he will never be involved in doping scandals and insisting: "I fail again, put me in jail."

Riis recently announced that he and business partners have acquired a 30 per cent stake in the NTT Pro Cycling team owned by Doug Ryder. He immediately travelled to a training camp in Spain and then on to the Tour Down Under in Australia. 

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