Can I recommend this podcast
https://soundcloud.com/the-cycling-podcast/kilometre-0-ten-years-after
Sometimes you say "was that really 10 years ago, it seems more recent", but this is the opposite, it seems to be from a very differant era and far more than 10 years ago that Rasmussen was kicked off the tour by his own team.
Ho doesn't deny doping, but rather denies there was anything wrong with it - it wasn't cheating because everyone was doing it. He regarded the whereabouts rule as a licence to dope at least twice a year !
Not much sympathy with him, but his final point is telling. His first tour was 98, with the Festina affair. Shouldn't this have been the start of a change ? No - the riders strike made it clear they weren't interested in riding clean