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  • So you are saying the TUE was applied and awarded for fraudulent reasons? You know that how? Its more simple speculation, just like any speculation over what a rider takes to achieve the results.

    The injection Wiggins got as I understand is a one off one that suppresses allergy attacks for six months. He had three of them throughout his entire career. HTFU? You obviously have never had severe allergies, you can't do fuck all when you are suffering from them.

    I don't make the rules, WADA does, and I expect them to make rules that don't allow athletes to gain an unfair advantage. Travis Tygart said this:

    "It's unthinkable that in the Olympic movement hackers would illegally
    obtain confidential medical information in an attempt to smear
    athletes to make it look as if they have done something wrong.

    "The athletes haven't. In fact in each of the situations, the athlete
    has done everything right in adhering to the global rules for
    obtaining permission to use a needed medication."

    So yes its 100% legal, and the rest is pure speculation, whether the TUEs were gained fraudulently, whether they actually benefited them in terms of performance, and at that point it becomes a case of personal bias, about how you feel about the athletes. Someone mentioned Valverde, and yes we do give him a hard time, but compared to the barrage of bile Froome, Wiggins and Sky get on Twitter and in the Clinic it is mild in the fucking extreme.

  • The injection Wiggins got as I understand is a one off one that suppresses allergy attacks for six months.

    If they last for six months, why not have the injection in the Spring to cover you through the race season?

    Wiggins raced and won Paris-Nice, the Dauphine and Romandie in 2012 before he received an injection. Surely he rode through some crop fields and meadows in the latter two races at least. Odd that his symptoms should come on shortly before the tour

  • Maybe he was only allergic to Grand Tours?

  • It depends what causes his hayfever, no? It can be very seasonal, so maybe his is caused by a type of pollen only present in the summer months?

    But the point remains, everything he's done is within the rules.

  • He had other TUEs to manage his allergies/asthma, going back to 2008. With those presumably he could manage the asthma, but the injection was at the time seen as a better, stronger medication to alleviate his symptoms.

    3 weeks in a block, rather than a shorter week-long race, much more exposure to pollen. Wasn't Quintana's poor showing at the Tour explained by hayfever? And his numbers showed he was significantly slower during the race, compared to his usual performance.

    As I said I suffered with severe allergies when I was younger, and it does make me sympathetic to it. Unless of course it is a big fat lie, he doesn't suffer from it and all his TUEs are bullshit.

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