Froome and Wiggins TUEs

[Pro Tour Punditry]

David Walsh, he of the Inside Team Sky (All Is Well) book, took to twitter today after Brailsford/Sutton appeared before the Select C'ttee:
"My impression from listening to Dave Brailsford and Shane Sutton at Select Committee today is that we're being subjected to massive cover-up"

 

[Tin Pot]

It was decongestant.

So back to the real story, i.e. The Russian state sponsored doping

Hear, hear!

 

[SWSteve]

It all seems a bit odd

 

[smutchin]

It all seems a bit odd

Quite.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Lol @ David. "can I have my credibility back please?" Walsh

 

[SWSteve]

One thing I've thought about this, wasn't Walsh with Team Sky for the 2011 Dauphiné on his 'follow SKY round and tell the world how clean they are' tour?

 

[Dogtrousers]

One thing I've thought about this, wasn't Walsh with Team Sky for the 2011 Dauphiné on his 'follow SKY round and tell the world how clean they are' tour?

No, well at least not for that book.

"For the 2013 season Brailsford has given David Walsh the invitation of a lifetime - Join the team. See what you want. Speak with whom you want. No closed doors."

I'm ashamed to say I've got a copy of that book. I just picked it up and fortunately the necessary info was on the flyleaf, so I didn't have to read any of the pages of grovelling obsequiousness mixed with Lance-like attacks on critics.

 

[SWSteve]

No, well at least not for that book.

"For the 2013 season Brailsford has given David Walsh the invitation of a lifetime - Join the team. See what you want. Speak with whom you want. No closed doors."

I'm ashamed to say I've got a copy of that book. I just picked it up and fortunately the necessary info was on the flyleaf, so I didn't have to read any of the pages of grovelling obsequiousness mixed with Lance-like attacks on critics.

It's odd, he has made comment on it being a big cover-up, and it certainly looks like he has played a part in it - whether knowingly or otherwise (most likely the latter).

 

[rich p]

It's shame that Walsh and Kimmage became such tits after Lancegate

 

[Dogtrousers]

It's shame that Walsh and Kimmage became such tits after Lancegate

OT a bit, but that Walsh book was the most disappointing, annoying book I've ever read. I picked it up purely because he was the author and I thought it might be interesting, but the tone varies from aggressive defence (eg justification of the hiring of Geert Leinders) to canonisation of just about anyone connected with Sky, from Brailsford down to the humblest anti-doping sock-washer, to preemptive attacks on doubters of the likes of Ross Tucker. Not a single thoughtful outsider's view in the whole book. I just couldn't understand his motivation for writing like that. It was suggested that it was to curry favour with his employers at News International. I wonder if he wasn't just a bit burnt out after all the Armstrong stuff and just turned out an easy lazy book.

I was ambivalent about Sky at the time, especially because Saint Cav was a bit peed off with them, but I found that book so annoying I decided to put Sky on my list of baddies when following racing. (I like to have a nicely simplistic view of goodies and baddies when following sport, isn't that what sport's all about?).

Kimmage, IMO is a bit potty. He seems to be permanently incoherent with anger. I read him now and again, but I rarely understand what he is on about.

 

[Stonechat]

David Walsh, he of the Inside Team Sky (All Is Well) book, took to twitter today after Brailsford/Sutton appeared before the Select C'ttee:
"My impression from listening to Dave Brailsford and Shane Sutton at Select Committee today is that we're being subjected to massive cover-up"

I bet you watch the X files

 

[smutchin]

I bet you watch the X files

Do you prefer Jackanory?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Come to think of it, Chris Froome does have a bit of a look of one of those grey aliens, doesn't he?

 

[uclown2002]

The whole thing stinks:-


But questions remain:

• Why has it taken so long for organisations that claim to be committed to transparency and accountability to get here?
• The Daily Mail now reports that Brailsford tried to persuade them not to run the Jiffy bag story. Why go to such efforts when it merely contained a decongestant?
• Will British Cycling or Team Sky now be able to provide a paper trail to back up the Fluimucil explanation?
• Why was British Cycling president Bob Howden still unable to say what was in the jiffy bag months after the story broke, only for Brailsford to then reveal it?
• Why were Brailsford's original explanations about the delivery not correct when all he had to do was ask former team medic Dr Richard Freeman?
• Why send for a routine, innocuous drug from over 1,000 kilometres away when it could have been easily sourced in France?
• Why did former coach Shane Sutton "authorise" the delivery of something, the details of which he claims not to be aware of? And why did Wiggins' long-term mentor not know what medication his star cyclist was taking?
• And why was Wiggins taking a decongestant that apparently is not meant to be used by asthmatics (like him)?

Sadly for Team Sky and British Cycling, despite the belated attempt at clarity, for many critics the sense of suspicion will linger beyond today.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/38379953

 

[jontee70]

brailsfords statement is a whole pack of lies the utter contempt that this man has got for the cycling community to come out with this total rubbish is beyond belief . it makes one wonder who is running british cycling. its always the same once SKY get their fingers in the pie it becomes corrupt, as brailsfords just one of their puppets. and as for BRAD very sad that he ends it all under this cloud but its of his own making