Stepping down ... Matt White has admitted to doping while with US Postal. Source: Matt White / AAP
Former pro racer Matt White has admitted to taking drugs during his time riding for Lance Armstrong's US Postal team.
White has voluntarily stood down from his positions with Australia's road cycling team Orica-GreenEDGE and Cycling Australia.
"I am aware my name has been mentioned during talks that USADA has had with former team mates of mine in their investigation regarding doping activities at the US Postal Service team," he said in a statement.
"I am sad to say that I was part of a team where doping formed part of the team's strategy, and I too was involved in that strategy.
"My involvement is something I am not proud of and I sincerely apologise to my fans, media, family and friends who trusted me and also to other athletes in my era that consciously chose not to dope."
White, 38, has become the first Australian casualty from the US Anti-Doping Agency's damning 1000-page plus report on the US Postal team's doping regime.
The report claimed the team of seven-time Tour de France champion Armstrong conducted the "most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping program that sport has ever seen".
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The report contained the sworn testimony of 11 of Armstrong's former teammates with disgraced Tour de France winner Floyd Landis stating he had shared testosterone and EPO with White.
"Given my admissions above, I have been in contact with my employees and will be voluntarily standing down from my positions with the national men's high performance program with Cycling Australia and as a sports director with GreenEDGE Cycling while inquiries into my case are conducted," said White, who retired from riding with pro team Discovery Channel in 2007.
White rode for the US Postal team between 2001 and 2003 before that team took on Discovery Channel as principal sponsor.
He said he had not been involved in any doping in his roles at Cycling Australia and Orica-GreenEDGE.
"In my roles with Slipstream Sports, Cycling Australia and now at ORICA-GreenEDGE, I have always acted within the ethos of clean sport and I am very proud to have worked with the new generation of clean superstars," he said.
"A lot has changed for the better, cycling is totally different now, and I have seen these changes as an athlete and also in management with my own eyes in the last decade."
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