Questions for Team Sky over how Fluimucil was administered to Sir Bradley Wiggins

Just for the sake of arguement, lets say Sky are cheating and using drugs. Look at how many riders they have hired then moved on who are still performing well and winning stages and races for other teams.

So are the other teams who have hired ex Sky riders also cheating and are also not being caught out ?

Also do Sky on their 24m budget (approx) have the scientific ability to hide all the illegal substances every rider will have taken considering the advances of science.

Or in the end does this come down to a massive PR failure and the word of a journo who wants to make a name for himself.

And as for that buffoon who's running the select committee you just have to look at his comments about the new football World Cup format to realise he's bloody clueless.  

oops - forgot the /sarcasm tag... Sorry folks 

Davel - Is that doctor prescribed gear or DIY gear you're taking?

Davel - even in your example above I would suggest you are gaining from using the steroids - if exercise makes you tired and the roids counter this then you are more likely to exercise and thus receive benefit.

If you apply this to someone that spends 24/7 thinking about diet, training, preformance, recovery et al then it becomes a much bigger piece of the jigsaw puzzle!

So then ianrobo- a reporter from the regularly castigated cycling hating daily mail says he's telling the truth and a reporter who spat his dummy out with sky says blah blah blah and all of a sudden they are both right !!!!
Oh hang on its about sky which is your favourite team to troll about so therefore it's obviously true. Even Skyvhater daddyelvis has not raised his head over this parapet, perhaps he knows the truth as well ?????

But intent is everything, isn't it??

I've been taking steroids for years, because exercise makes me tired - not to enhance my performance in any way. I can categorically prove that I have received no performance benefit (I perform regular checks vs the non-steroid me from a parallel universe) and they have only helped with recovery.

I would never take them with the intention of enhancing cycling performance - I'm not a dirty cheat! - although my wife does like my big muscles.

Chris Froome stated that when riding for the Barloworld team, before signing for Sky in 2010, he had (legally) been given injections of the substance for recuperation purposes.

This has been confirmed by the team’s doctor, Massimiliano Mantovani, who said: “It is the only antioxidant that has been tested and shown to work. It was used only for recovery, not to enhance performance, it is better by injection as the absorption is more efficient.

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I like Brad, I like Froomey and Team Sky. There are issues here with regards to the language used and what is acceptable, also how it is reported.

Wiggins use of TUE's should only have been used to highlight the problems with TUE's and not to suggest he was cheating, he was not. The problem is that this adds so much doubt into this second issue that it is clouding the issue.

The same with the above, Froome is trying to distance himself and hold the moral high ground whilst admitting that he had the same injections. Suggesting that aiding recuperation doesn't impact performance is also madness! 

Interviews with David Walsh & Matt Lawson.

Walsh's is particularly interesting given his time 'inside' the team.

http://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/Off_The_Ball/Highlights_from_Off_The_Ball/

Scroll down to episodes dated Dec 19th, 21st & Jan 4th.

Being Bradley goes like this at the moment.....

Say do don't like something - be found to have done it in the past or now intend to do it in the future.

well one reason they avoid is that Brad Wiggins himself said in was against needles then of course had a TUE for one ...

It is not the UCI policy thats sucha  problem but everything we have seen is agains twhat he wrote in his books.

More shit getting spouted it seems.

Can they prove any wrongdoing at all - no they cant other than giving out crap comments, a total PR fail.

So will all the people who only come out from under their rocks when Sky are accused of wrongdoing please fcuk off back under them.

Froome is above this team.

Froome is only trying to sperate himself from DB, surely no one thinks he is clean after a remarkable rise within a year from a no-one to 2nd int he Vuelta, yeah that was clean?

Oh today the head at UKAD basically called Sky's appearance at the Commons a total joke, my tprediction is within 4 weeks DB will out, the package will be revealed to be a doping product and a major crisis for Sky and British cycling.

Your headline is spelt incorrectly, it should be

"Froome digs the knife into as many people as possible because he has a chip on his shoulder"

Quick question; why is it only Sky being asked these questions, surely Wiggins has some ability to give clarity if nothing is wrong. It seems Froome gets asked far more often about it than Wiggins has spoken about it. Brad is happy to talk about The Jump but not about his sporting legacy... unless The Jump WILL be his sporting legacy when this is all over and done with.

"OK, bear with me. It was exactly this long, weighed 1.497kg and I've got its exact journey checkpoints and times here.

But no - I don't know what was in it. Nobody ever tells me anything. I know - megalolz, innit."