2014 Pro-cycling season thread

Kimmage did the square root of fuck all in exposing Armstrong. He happily followed on the coat tails of Damian Rinard, Pierre Ballester and David Walsh and his main contribution was to basically heckle Armstrong at a press conference before the Tour of California in 2009.

I said that Kimmage ensured light was cast on the issue, not that he exposed Armstrong. Even if that press conference was his only contribution (which it wasn't), I think it would be wrong to underestimate the impact of it. It took a lot of balls (no pun intended) to do that, at a time when most of the press were still cheer leading. The point of Kimmage is that he asks difficult questions in provocative ways, which generate coverage. Would you rather everyone towed the party line?

Personally, I think he is within reason to question Cookson's son working for Sky. The UCI should try and build a reputation that is beyond reproach and that can often only be achieved at some personal cost. In addition If Oli Cookson is so great at what he does, surely he would find employment with ease in a related field.