Genevieve Janson shared her views on how to eliminate doping in sports as part of her new documentary series "J'ai une question" (opens in new tab), which premiered last Wednesday on Crave TV.

Interviewed by NFL player Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, Jansson said that athletes who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs deserve only part of the blame. She suggested that sports instead need to address and target the entire system that fosters a "win at any cost" environment.

"We need to target not only athletes, but also coaches, teams, federations, media, and sponsors," Janson said in a conversation with Duvernay-Tardif.

Jansson confessed in 2007 that he had used erythropoietin (EPO) for most of his career, from his teens in 1998 until his early 20s in 2005. His 10-year ban was later reduced after he cooperated with an investigation conducted by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) into allegations of abuse against coach Andre Aubut and Montreal-based Dr. Maurice Duquette.

The CCES handed down lifetime bans to Duquette for "administering a banned substance to a minor" and to Aubut for "administering erythropoietin (EPO), a banned substance, to Geneviève Jansson during her cycling career."

In a conversation with Duvernay-Tardif on the "J'ai une question" series, Janson reiterated the importance of better protecting youth athletes in sports.

"We are still underage dopers. We are children, we are 15-16 years old and we think we are very mature, but we are not at all!" Jansson said.

In his 2015 interviews with Cyclingnews, "Genevieve Jeanson - Exclusive Podcast" and "Genevieve Jeanson: New Questions and Answers," from teenager to adult, He details allegations of verbal and physical abuse as an athlete and in his personal life outside of sports.

(Orbut did not respond to Cycling News' request for comment on Jeanson's alleged verbal and physical abuse when we reported this story in 2015.) According to an Enquête interview published in 2007, Orbut did not respond to a request for comment on Jeanson's alleged use of EPO refuted allegations that she pushed him to use EPO).

When asked about those who criticize her for staying in this situation for so long, Janson replied in an interview with J'ai une question: "Why doesn't the woman who was beaten leave?"

Jansson also spoke out against abuse in the sport in an open letter to the International Cycling Union (UCI) after the highly publicized incident involving Healthmate Cycle Live team manager Patrick Van Gansen.

Jeanson believed that Van Gansen had been given an inappropriately light sentence given the seriousness of the offense against several riders on his former team, and that the sport's governing body needed to do more to protect its riders.

Referring to his own experience, Jeanson said, "As you may recall, I retired from professional cycling in 2006 following a failed EPO test. In my situation, the 'omerta' surrounding the abuse by my coach and the continued use of EPO were inextricably linked."