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The rules appear anything but black and white: there's a grey area in between where certain substances are permitted to be taken under certain circumstances. David Brailsford always conceded there's ambiguity, and that Sky's policy is to ensure they operate on the right side of that.
That's not to say I'm comfortable with all these riders having a pop at Wiggins. I doubt there's a cyclist on the planet that's not on some drug or other, possibly ingesting things that are legal now but maybe once were not, or will not be in the future.
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Except he hasn't. Look, the rules are black and white and what Wiggins has done is acceptable within that framework. He cannot be accused of wrongdoing.
From an ethical perspective, and this is a grey area as people have differing views on this, you could argue what he's done isn't in line with he's previous statements on his attitude towards doping, but that still doesn't make it wrong.
It's a storm in a teacup and has provoked the exact response Russia wanted in leaking this information into the public domain.
And David Walsh can fuck off, he's virulently anti-doping when it comes to cycling, quite the opposite when it comes to his beloved rugby which, still, has a huge doping problem.