Froome and Wiggins TUEs

[mjr]

Live at 2pm at http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/848600f4-b496-434b-90d4-8544753566d8

Edit: looks like Flash required. Welcome to the 1990s

Edit edit: Also on BBC Parliament on TV and online: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08j3fn9

 

[Bollo]

Wiggins doctor will not be attending the Select Comittee's hearing, he's ill. A jiffy bag has been dispatched via France.

Remember it's important to add after EVERY comment about this story that Sir Bradley Wiggins is not accused of any wrongdoing.(c) BBC 2017

And also Mo Farah.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39128672

• She said: "Team Sky did have a policy of keeping records, just not everyone was adhering to it"

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39128672

• She said: "Team Sky did have a policy of keeping records, just not everyone was adhering to it"

We generally have a policy of believing Team Sky, just not everyone is adhering to it.

 

[mjr]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/39128672

I also liked this:

• Questioned on why he did not ask what was in the package, [Cope] said: "Why would I question it? Why would I question the integrity of our governing body? I just didn't ask. You may think I'm stupid. It must have been something medical, because it was for Dr Freeman, but I had no reason to doubt it. Throughout my career, I've looked up to our governing body. We've done so well and with a zero-tolerance stance [on doping]."

So, was that "zero-tolerance stance" basically everyone not asking any questions?

Also, "Cope - who now manages Wiggins' professional road-racing team" - so no opportunity for pressure to be put on him through his current job, then?

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Dog ate my homework.

 

[iLB]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/v...ley-wiggins-police-bbc-reporter-package-video

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/v...ley-wiggins-police-bbc-reporter-package-video

Get orf my lahhhnndddd

 

[uclown2002]

Where are the Sky fan-boys?

 

[Crackle]

The oddest thing about that is the buzzer to the house on a gate you can step over. Perhaps it's a sophisticated cat flap or he's trained his dog to use it.

 

[rich p]

The oddest thing about that is the buzzer to the house on a gate you can step over. Perhaps it's a sophisticated cat flap or he's trained his dog to use it.

Marginal gates...

 

[Dave Davenport]

Can't remember what the thread was but a couple of years ago I said that I felt pretty sure that Wiggins/Sky were clean but that I wouldn't bet my house on it, I wouldn't bet my shed on it today (and it's a pretty ropy shed at that).

 

[HF2300]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/v...ley-wiggins-police-bbc-reporter-package-video

Got to say whatever the rights and wrongs I'm a bit dubious about silly doorstepping tactics. I can't help feeling the media these days use doorstepping not so much for serious investigative journalism, more for dramatic effect.

 

[Bollo]

*IF* this story has legs then there's more trouble heading Sky's way...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...gedly-sent-banned-testosterone-patches-doping

 

[Smokin Joe]

*IF* this story has legs then there's more trouble heading Sky's way...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2...gedly-sent-banned-testosterone-patches-doping

This is turning into a classic doping scenario. Little bits of evidence coming in one by one, each explained away as an innocent one off error of some sort until in the end there are so many dead fish in the pond that the stink cannot be ignored.