Sir Bradley Jumps Before He's Pushed?!...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/38451926
I for one am quite glad he has finally made a definitive decision! Regardless of the on-going TUE saga he was turning his retirement into an episode of f
king East Enders! Will he - Won't he, To Me - To You...
It probably shouldn't be too much of a surprise, especially after Brian Cookson's recent comments about the importance of integrity within cycling...
I for one am quite glad he has finally made a definitive decision! Regardless of the on-going TUE saga he was turning his retirement into an episode of f
king East Enders! Will he - Won't he, To Me - To You...It probably shouldn't be too much of a surprise, especially after Brian Cookson's recent comments about the importance of integrity within cycling...
There isn't much left for him to do, he will never be a contender in the major road events again because of his age and it is four years to the next Olympics. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the TUE issue himself and Brailsford have tangled themselves up in a PR disaster which casts a big shadow over hi achievements.
pablo said:
He had a prescription for something, approved by all the relevant authorities, for all we know he may not have even taken it...
Exactly! Luckily for the governing bodies though the authorities and media are obsessed with the Jiffy bag shaped red herring, going after Team Sky et al. rather than tackling the real issue of the system(s), procedures and people that allowed such drugs to be approved in the first place!He's probably only taken a bunch of hard work.
Being serious though, he clearly took the substances he was prescribed, he doesn't contest that. As for the mysterious package? Someone earlier talked about companys having procurement procedures. Sounds reasonable to me. Some companies do waste inordinate amounts of money to follow them as well. Sky might be no different in that respect.
As far as we know he or team Sky haven't broken the rules. He is guilty of partaking in morally questionable methods of winning though. (I doubt its any different for most top sports people across the board though)
Being serious though, he clearly took the substances he was prescribed, he doesn't contest that. As for the mysterious package? Someone earlier talked about companys having procurement procedures. Sounds reasonable to me. Some companies do waste inordinate amounts of money to follow them as well. Sky might be no different in that respect.
As far as we know he or team Sky haven't broken the rules. He is guilty of partaking in morally questionable methods of winning though. (I doubt its any different for most top sports people across the board though)
pablo said:
He had a prescription for something, approved by all the relevant authorities, for all we know he may not have even taken it...
I imagine that would have been his first defence if he hadn't taken it. Sadly, the fact they went to all the problem of getting a TUE, then flew the women's team manager to deliver it (when its available readily in France) does suggest he did bother to take it.The irony is that he probably didn't need to take it. So it takes the shine off his GT efforts. yes, if what we are told is true, he didn't break any rules. Rules that should be different. But it still gripes.
Not that I think he will care. After all a while back on Instagram he started following Armstrong, and has collected various US Postal stuff in the last few years as well. So either he's a master of irony. Or he doesn't give a s
t what people think of himalbundy89 said:
Ha bloody ha
A master of Irony,
Doesnt care,
Absolutely, both.
Try reading everything he ever wrote??
The man is as guilty as Armstrong and has done as much to shame cycling.
Bloody tosser,
What did he do exactly? I'm not defending him, just intrigued as to how you came to the conclusion. A master of Irony,
Doesnt care,
Absolutely, both.
Try reading everything he ever wrote??
The man is as guilty as Armstrong and has done as much to shame cycling.
Bloody tosser,
The cyclist, an asthma sufferer, said he sought TUEs to "put himself back on a level playing field".
Asthma sufferer wins the most grueling, monotonous, cycling events in the world. Yeah right. That's like saying a GCSE Grade 'C' average took on Harvard's finest and show them how it's done.
Asthma sufferer wins the most grueling, monotonous, cycling events in the world. Yeah right. That's like saying a GCSE Grade 'C' average took on Harvard's finest and show them how it's done.
So as per September or whenever this came out, there's still no proof, no witnesses, no rumours, no suspicions, no silenced journalists or fellow professionals.... your only evidence something he wrote, the context of which we can't really be sure, a winning performance in a three week race on a course pretty much perfectly suited to him (that he still almost lost to a team mate) and an approved TUE from the sports governing body that we suspect, given its legality and known benefits, the rest of the peloton are probably taking too but as they haven't had their medical history released by a state sponsored criminal hacking group funded by a recently shamed sporting nation we can't be sure....
I think you're absolutely right to put him level with Armstrong on the basis of that evidence...
I think you're absolutely right to put him level with Armstrong on the basis of that evidence...
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