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Christ on a bike! If he hasn't been able to replicate the conditions to demonstrate that he's not fucked up by now, then he never will. Just get the fuck on with it and as for team sky and their no disciplinary case to answer. Do you seriously want to turn fans off, if not to cycling as a whole, to Team SKY? Fucking idiots.
What a fuck-up. Almost as bad as Brexit!
He could go rowing with Bradley. I’m sure they will overlook any improprieties that happened prior. Simple thing to sort.
no drugs allowed in cycling whatsoever. If you can’t perform without medication, don’t compete. Tough but makes an even playing field.
It seems to me like the UCI haven't got the courage to take the case on and that Sky's are trying to bully the UCI into dropping the whole thing by making it drag on so long that it eventually becomes meaningless.
I think that Froome is in danger of being suspended at some time in the future which may cost him the chance to compete in 3 grand tours and i do wonder if Sky are acting in his or their best interests.
I can see the eventual outcome being a guilty verdict, the loss of the Vuelta title and a ban being imposed which will run over most of the off season at the end of this year. Everyone can then (depending on their particular stance in the whole mess) moan or say that justice has been served. It will be interesting to see if Froom is sacked by Sky if there is a guilty verdict handed down at the end of all of this mess.
''Team Sky had hoped the UCI would rule there was no disciplinary case to answer,''
Why on earth would they think there is no disciplinary case ... exceeded the limit and has no explanation other than ''I promise I didnt take too many puffs''.
This is the death by 100 cuts of the all parties. They should bury their own agendas and act in the interests of cycling.
It's beginning to look like Froome should have held up his hand last September, apologised for exceeding the correct number of puffs, and taken a six or nine-month suspension. He may have lost the Vuelta result but at least he would have been racing without distraction this season.
There is a hint of arrogance in his blind refusal to accept fault in all of this. Don't get me wrong, if I was as good as him I'd be a tad haughty as well but, for all of us, there is a time and place for humility.