Seem the UKAD have decided to take no further action against Brad and Team Sky.
They have not come out and clearly stated that they are innocent etc.
Have just read a BBC report about this and the journo finishes the article with a crappy comment about all Team Sky victories can only be classed as hollow.
Now I am not nieve with regards to the messy world of drugs and cycling, but it would make a nice change for BBC journo's to actually support a successful British based sports team.
Dave Brailsford and his mob have done a great job in building and running Team Sky and should be rewarded for their world beating efforts not sniped at by people who have the sporting prowess of a wet flannel!
Of course if they are guilty of doping?
Firstly prove it or shut up!
Secondly if proven guilty, they should be erased.
No I am not angry.
Cheers R
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You sound like one of those fanatics who defended Lance Armstrong so vigorously.
First the BBC are like all journalists, a bit slimy and likely to turn on people they once supported. OK.
But Secondly I am a little disappointed with Wiggo. He apparently had this phrase "injection free" in his autobiography, but it later turned out to be a fib didn't it? (Disclaimer - I didn't actually read the bio, and the injections weren't illegal, but they were injections.)
So I'm suspicious, mostly not because of any real evidence but because there were a lot of "convenient" lapses of memory, etc. over the last few years.
But I was right!
The convoluted route by which Wiggo's medication was transported to him is bound to look suspicious. (Why go to so much trouble for meds that could have been prescribed locally?) You have to wonder why medications permitted for minor ailments cannot be prescribed to racing cyclists either by, or under the supervision of, a neutral race doctor? This would remove all possible suspicion of cheating.
The convenient non-availability of witnesses and documentary evidence compounds the matter. It looks like weaselling. It also strongly resembles the Armstrong business.
This, by itself, is not definitive proof of anything.
It is well known that Wiggins' 2012 TdF victory was due to team orders. Froome held back when he could have trounced Wiggins. Wiggins has never looked like a serious contender for a second tour win. There was a perceived need for a British winner as part of the hype leading up to the 2012 London Olympic Games. Wiggins is British. Froome was born and raised abroad.
I find it hugely ironic that, whilst all of Armstrong's TdF victories have been struck from the record, that of Marco Pantani - a proven career-long doper, who died as a result of his excesses - has been allowed to stand.
In 2009 (3rd) and 2011 (DNF due to crash), Wiggins was a serious contender in the TDF - there's a great documentary about HTC Columbia kicking around somewhere with some really good footage of the team directeur sportifs from Astana and Saxo Bank discussing how they both needed to attack Wiggins as they feared him in 2009.
I agree with this, and there's categorically no defence - however when Pantani was racing, doping was particularly bad in cycling and had been for decades. Pantani never got caught in the TDF with the testing of the time, in the same way Ullrich, Fignon, Merckx, Coppi etc etc didn't. All of which were known drug users.
Armstrong's cheating was a different league to anything that had gone before.
It's nothing to do with my lack of ability, fitness, stamina or dedication.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youIf any one person in the tour de france tests positive for drugs (of any sort) then the race continues with said person, only don't close the roads.
I'd love to see the tour de france with traffic.
I think there were 2 things unique about armstrong; how vigorously he persued anyone who tried to break the story... and how much he drove drug use on the young members of his team.
He has destroyed cycling for alot of people.
I suggested exactly this to a mate. He raised an eyebrow. "Oh yeah" I said, "that's what they're doing!"