GENEVA -- Tour de France champion Chris Froome wants an investigation into cyclings doping history to finally close an era dominated by Lance Armstrong. Almost 18 months after Armstrongs seven Tour wins were wiped from the record, an independent panel created by the new International Cycling Union leadership has begun work to discover the extent of the sports past problems. "I hope that anyone who does have anything to contribute would get involved." Froome told The Associated Press in an interview on Tuesday. The three-man Cycling Independent Reform Commission aims to investigate how doping happened from 1998-2013 and possible UCI complicity in helping Armstrong and his teams avoid scrutiny. "I am hoping that at the end of the day people will be able to say of it, Right, that was that era, we can now put that to bed and stop asking questions about it," Froome said. Armstrong and former UCI presidents Hein Verbruggen and Pat McQuaid will be invited for confidential, closed-door interviews with the panel which is based at Lausanne, Switzerland. None of the trio has committed publicly to meeting with the panel, which is chaired by Swiss politician and prosecutor Dick Marty. Froome said the panel could engage "not just necessarily those three, but anyone really who is part of that era and can contribute to resolving it." "Its going to be more negative publicity for the sport. Thats never good," Froome acknowledged. The Team Sky leader, who made a winning return to racing last month at the Tour of Oman, said he had not heard much talk about the commission among current riders, who must help restore the sports credibility. "Theres a lot of really, really talented young riders coming through the system now that I believe in personally." Froome said. "These are going to be the guys carrying the torch going forward." Froome will be 29 when he is scheduled to start defending his Tour title on July 5 in northern England -- probably with 2012 winner Bradley Wiggins alongside him. "Im confident whoever is in there, we are going to have the strongest team possible," said Froome, whose frayed relationship with Wiggins was mended in the off-season. "He can do a lot of damage to the peloton. Hes one of the best climbers in the world and we know his time trialing ability." Froome expects to follow the path both he and Wiggins followed to Tour success, competing in -- and winning -- stage-race preparations at the Tour de Romandie in Switzerland and Criterium de Dauphine in France. "I think it would be crazy to really change things up too much," Froome said. "We found it has been a good system that has worked quite well for us." Speaking at the Geneva Motor Show, on the sidelines of a Team Sky sponsors event, Froome said extra work being a Tour champion was "a bit of a juggling act" with his training program. Still, the Oman victory suggests he got the balance right. "It just backs up that I have had a really good winter preparation," Froome said. "Im where I need to be for the season coming up." Mint Green Hydro Flask . - Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors will coach the Western Conference in the All-Star Game on Feb. Yellow Hydro Flask Sale . That was OK with him. He was just happy his team came away with two points. 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United (7-3-4) is eight points back of first-place Chelsea (10-0-3), which hosts Tottenham on Wednesday.Liverpool (6-6-2) is eighth after coming from behind to win 3-1 at Leicester. The hosts went ahead in the 22nd when Leonardo Ulloas shot a the post and rebounded into the net off goalkeeper Simon Mignolet. But Adam Lallana tied the score four minutes later and captain Steven Gerrard put Liverpool ahead in the 54th. After Wes Morgan was ejected for dragging down Rickie Lambert, Jordan Henderson got the final goal in the 83rd.West Ham (7-4-3) stayed fifth after rallying to edge WWest Brom 2-1 on goals by Kevin Nolan and James Tomkins, and Swansea (6-4-4) is sixth after beating Queens Park Rangers 2-0 on goals by Sung-Yueng Ki and Wayne Routledge.ddddddddddddQPR (3-9-2) is next-to-last, one point above Leicester (2-8-4), and Burnley (2-6-6) climbed out of the relegation zone by drawing 1-1 with Newcastle. 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