Tiernan-Locke: Wiggins drug use "looks suspicious"

Got no time for people who stir up $hit without a shred of evidence of wrongdoing. If he has something to say, then fine, let him say it, but he hasn't. All he is doing is trying to discredit a guy who is twice the cyclist that he himself is. 

I'd love to know if you'd all say this stuff to JTL's face if you had the chance... 

Personally speaking, there are enough questions over his conviction that I'm going to leave the pitch fork in the shed just for now. 

Now, he may be as guilty as sin, but his suspension was done on the back of a single irregular blood result, which is not normal protocol... normally its three adverse tests I believe...

as i understand it, he did take a further test 48 hours later which was in line with all previous and subsequent blood tests collected. However, due to this test being undertaken by BC or SKY (can't remember which) and not a doping authority it was not admissable evidence. 

Thats enough for me to believe that its not as clear cut as you all seem to believe it is. 

Assuming the second test was accurate (clearly it was good enough for either BC or SKY), then eitehr JTL is the greatest blood doper ever, or somethings not quite right.

He still couldn't provide a decent reason for the adverse result, so yeah, he pays the price, but honestly I can't see the need for the character assassination.

"Doper says..."

Oh.

So, the BBC have interviewed Michael Rasmussen and now Jonathan Tiernan-Locke about Bradley Wiggins. Who next? Riccardo Riccò? That American female pro who took so much testosterone she looked like Geoff Capes? Tony Montana from Scarface? I'm no fan of Wiggins, but this is just a continuation of the BBC Sport website's piss-weak coverage of cycling. They'll get anyone in, doesn't matter who, so they end up with people whose own toxic brand name can only be improved by association with Bradley's dodgy-but-legal activities. I'm shocked they haven't had Lance Armstrong on the phone yet.

Interesting comments!

There is no suggestion from anywhere that what Wiggins did was illegal.

The issue is, was he. lawfully, but "immorally" or "unethically" gaming the system.

JTL makes two observations which to me seem, really, uncontentious.

ONE-  you have, in your career, 3 intramuscular steroidal injections.  And all three are immediarly before your crack at a Grand Tour.  That "looks suspicious".  Seriously, how can you argue with that?

Then, providing a counter view, he says

TWO-  but of course, therein lies the possible explanation.  You know you suffer from hayfever, so of course, when you think you are in with crack of winning a Grand Tour, of course you mainline everything you lawfully can to make sure your illness, which you are allowed to treat, doesn't mess up your chances. 

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together has presumably already had both thoughts.  Certainly, both views were expressed on our village ride at the weekend.

ALong with the observation that it might help if you actually read your ghost written money spinning autobiography before it goes to the shops.  One advantage Millar certainly has is being able to write for himself.

JTL doper or alcoholic?

The distinctive sound of the BBC scraping the bottom of the barrel.

They probably didn't know who the hell Tiernan-Locke was and the interview added precisely nothing to the discussion.

If he has any proof he should give it to WADA or UCI. As he clearly doesn't he should crawl back under his stone.

Where did he crawl out from?

When I saw the headine initially I thought "this could be intersting". Then I read the name. Priceless. I think the Yiddish word is 'chutzpah'.

British cycling community: We need ex-dopers like Tiernan-Locke and David Millar to have a voice to prevent past doping mistakes being repeated in our system.

David Millar, Jon Tiernan-Locke: What Wiggins was doing looks like doping to us.

British cycling community: *shouting*

davel - didn't people say the same about Floyd? Note that Michael Barry also indicated that Tramadol was abused at Sky. This is hardly a surprise that the same was done at British Cycling on a team made up completely of Sky riders.

The Team Sky spin and PR is unravelling before our eyes 

ha, ha, ha, ha, pot, kettle, black

"I don't want to insinuate anything..." 

Why's this little creep still getting column inches?