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It's elite professional sport, anyone who places trust in athletes and teams who participate in it is away with the fairies.
The issue I have here is that all sorts of accusations are being made without any real evidence. The usual suspects want this to the UK version of the USPS/Tailwind sports debacle, but there is no evidence that backs this up.
Sky have handled the whole thing terribly, but it's well established that for a team representing a media company, they are consistently bloody awful at PR.
I should add - I don't care how respected Matt Lawton is, he works for a fascist rag and deserves contempt.
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I think we're coming at it from generally the same angle.
At every turn there's more questions to be answered though. I don't think it's unreasonable, in the pursuit of clean sport, for people at the highest level to be required to explain themselves satisfactorily when it comes to anti-doping questions.
For a team apparently so meticulous, to be in this situation is laughable if they've done nothing wrong and I find it hard to believe that with such a focus on details, they're stuttering and mumbling through this for months as if they can't remember.
And, with Sky, most people are only holding them to the standards they set for themselves. They claimed zero tolerance, transparency and clean sport and we're in a situation where they've been caught out in the darkest of grey areas on many occasions.
There's only so many times I'm prepared to hear Brailsford say 'we made a mistake, we've learned from this and we're moving on.' It's also the damage it could be doing to British Cycling which is unfair to those riders.
johnnyhotdog
The Daily Mail is a rag but Matt Lawton is a respected journalist (Sports Journalist Of The Year) and I would bet on him keeping meticulous records of his interviews. On the record or off the record, if he's lying about Brailsford, and that's a big accusation (whether it's DB willing to lie about another team or withholding information from WADA regarding another team's doping) then DB can take the appropriate legal action. But he won't, will he?
And, by your logic, are Murdoch owned media outlets fairly reporting the story? Or reporting it at all?
Sky blew any trust they had from me out the water with Leinders and their ever changing story.
If you still believe it and you still believe in Sky, then that's great. I hope they don't let you down but they've let me down already and they're in the same box as Santa and the Easter Bunny now.