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hippy-
Jaksche is rent a quote on shit like this.
If Sky had something to hide, why did they apply for TUEs for both Wiggins and Froome? The stuff they took is only banned in competition, so taking it out of competition is fine. They've done nothing wrong by any of the UCI or WADA rules, yet still it's being made out to be proof of Sky's endemic doping programme by the usual suspects.
andyp
There has been an obsession with weight loss in procycling for as long as I can remember, with people like Sciandri, "eat watermelon it fills you up, but has hardly any calories", and Sean Yates "He (Chris Newton) has a fat arse, he needs to lose weight" quoted on it.
Sky seem to have a particular focus on it, but one assumes that they achieve low weight with a controlled diet, rather than cortisone injections, given the latter is a doping offence.