Cycling needs to face its dark period to climb out of abyss

A morning like no other interview in sport. Time reels past in a vivid blur of words for this is a conversation fuelled less by the cups of coffee lining the table in a cafe on High Street Kensington than by a tumultuous year in professional cycling. Of course, with Millar, the tangled mess of corruption and courage is best approached via circuitous and sometimes strikingly beautiful routes.