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The Froome TUE Palava: Every side letting the fans down

  • by Lee Rodgers
  • Posted on June 24, 2014June 28, 2014

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4 responses to “The Froome TUE Palava: Every side letting the fans down”

  1. doctornurse Avatar
    doctornurse
    June 25, 2014

    Well, that was a lot of words to describe a very simple situation- SKY broke the spirit if not the letter fo the anti-doping rules. End of. They obviously found and exploited a loophole that very likely gave their man an unfair advantage in a key race. SKY is well within their rights to join or not join the MPCC without justification, but they are just hypocritical in calling for the ban of Tramadol while giving a rider Steroids just prior to a key race. If Froome was that sick, give him the meds, sit him down, have him recover and bring him back for the next race. Simple. SKY are slipprier than a bucket full of oil covered eels, and this, combined with the inhaler issue, the Dr Linders issue and the unexplained benching of Henao reinforces that they are quite Machiavellian and happy to bend the rules to favour their position when convenient. They make it easy to support Contador, Valverde, Nibali and anyone else not in SKY Black in the TdFrance and any other race…

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    1. MikeB Avatar
      MikeB
      June 25, 2014

      Is this a storm in a teacup, or does anyone think Froome genuinely fails the “smell” test. For me he is clean at present…

      It seems to me the sport has bigger problems. Lance got his. So the sport is doing its normal “problem solved” impression.

      Now the impetus behind others things seems to have gone cold.

      But what happened to..
      – The danish investigation which threatened to depose Riis (who does not pass the smell test for me)
      – The italian investigation – that amongst other things was about money laundering of riders , put you in jail kind of things.
      – Things like Landis said Rihs now BMC was aware and funded his doping at Phonak. Surely there are things need following up here. Denials aside, why would Landis say it risking a law suit, if it were not true? And If money came for doping, there must be unexplained money transfers?
      – What of the other managers of Bruyneels generation most of whom must have been involved ..
      – What of the blood bag plasticisers found in contadors blood..

      Considering some Like stephen roche are welcomed with open arms that an itallian judge said was doping, there are all sorts of double standards at play, for me Hincapie was a core part of the team who should never have ridden his last TdF, but he is home free.

      I wonder also whether Lance has the money claimed for him. I actually wonder whether despite career earnings of 200mil+ whether he actually has more than 20 left, which case the law suits will bankrupt him.
      Now it seems to me that Landis became at his most dangerous when losing everything. It may be that lance is the same. He must know where some bodies are buried. A bankrupt lance or even Bruyneel is certainly a threat to a Weisel and othersWith nothing to lose and all to gain by starting his very own “whistleblow” on all of the dirty tricks in cycling and who did them.

      Sorry about the rant, but I cannot help but feel – the furore about TUE (although founded) may be letting more serious things pass by.

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      1. crankpunk Avatar
        crankpunk
        June 28, 2014

        agreed Mike, and good rant! it’s business as usual and the carpet has a very large bump in it, that much has beens wept under it. does anything ever change? why is Riis still in a team car, directing pro riders, or indeed any riders? Roche, yep i hear you. the guy that got me into the sport. i wrote about it all here, if you are interested… http://crankpunk.com/2013/06/17/cp-on-the-roar-me-stephen-roche-and-pat-mcquaid-and-a-whole-lot-of-stink/

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  2. Noel Avatar
    Noel
    June 27, 2014

    as usual Sky getting singled out. Someone leaked Froome’s TUE – how many other TUE’s are issued that didn’t get leaked? And Henao?. They think something looks odd…. so what would we all prefer them to do? keep quiet about it? hope it goes away? or investigate it under the guidance of the UCI and WADA, and put the guy out to grass until they are clearer what’s going on. They certainly could have done with him riding this summer (the knee injury has fixed that now anyway). Just because they don’t give journos access to all their data (and why would one team give the competition access to this?) . And to call them out for not joining a club that has a team run by Vino as a member is laughable.
    … and before anyone says it, I’m not a Sky ‘fan’, just a Brit who follows UK cyclists whoever they ride for (Cav, Cummings, Yates Bros etc etc) . Sky aren’t even particularly British these days, but I guess that tag got attached with all the London 2012 hoopla and Brailsford’s joint roles. Winning the TdF for a couple of years means you’re on the top of the pedestal to be shot at. Sky ain’t perfect but they don’t seem to me to be any better or worse than most teams but they certainly aren’t liked, and I can’t see much other than jealousy as the reason…

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