Soldato
I dont think Sky have done themselves any favours in the way they have carried themselves and for sure I agree with you on the hypocrisy of how they portrayed themselves.
Do I think the French are manufacturing controversy around Sky, yes absolutely. There have been notable people stoking up the press all summer building up the the race.
Im sure plenty of teams have riders on dodgy TUEs that are lying low, there are definately teams that have convicted dopers either as riders or on the staff and as to micraculous rider transformations, look at Tom Domulin. He was and is a blindingly good ITTer but was not a Grand Tour rider of any note before the 2015 Vuelta and all of a sudden he is a GC contender/winner. What about Primoz Roglic who wasnt even a cyclist of any note and is now vying for the podium. Both Roglic and Domulin who are comparatively heavy compared with the pure climbers are climbing as good or better than the climbers and no one is questioning that.
If Sky are doping to get these miraculous rider transformations, does that mean all the ex Sky riders like Porte, Uran, Landa etc are dopers as well? Because they are competing against them now and either they are doping themselves or if they arent then surely they would come out and say something because they would be clean cyclists competing against dopers.
Do I think the French are manufacturing controversy around Sky, yes absolutely. There have been notable people stoking up the press all summer building up the the race.
Im sure plenty of teams have riders on dodgy TUEs that are lying low, there are definately teams that have convicted dopers either as riders or on the staff and as to micraculous rider transformations, look at Tom Domulin. He was and is a blindingly good ITTer but was not a Grand Tour rider of any note before the 2015 Vuelta and all of a sudden he is a GC contender/winner. What about Primoz Roglic who wasnt even a cyclist of any note and is now vying for the podium. Both Roglic and Domulin who are comparatively heavy compared with the pure climbers are climbing as good or better than the climbers and no one is questioning that.
If Sky are doping to get these miraculous rider transformations, does that mean all the ex Sky riders like Porte, Uran, Landa etc are dopers as well? Because they are competing against them now and either they are doping themselves or if they arent then surely they would come out and say something because they would be clean cyclists competing against dopers.
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