Doping

This is where I think Froome's responses haven't exactly helped either himself or the team-particularly he might have tempered a quite snotty response regarding saying 'questions remained' about Wiggins' TUEs as it was inevitably going to generate more column inches. This is especially strange in light of the fact that Froome himself has used them for in-competition corticosteroids in the run up to events that he's then won; same team, same doctor same TUE system. There's also nothing to say Froome couldn't have had any Triamcinolone injections out of competition that wouldn't have required a TUE to be used, so pointing to the number of TUEs any rider has had doesn't in itself vindicate them as a non-doper.

I also find it hard to believe that within one team there's going to be a totally different system or attitude to the usage of TUEs unless the culture was itself a bleed-over from the BC fostered crew, again, Roche coming out as a departing Sky rider and saying Wiggins' use of TUEs was 'ethically wrong' wasn't exactly a PR masterstroke, or particularly fair if he wasn't party to the decision making process that was involved in the substance being given. Was Wiggo expressly told it would enhance his performance, or was he just told it would kebosh his allergies all season and covered by a TUE so it was legit?

Regardless, it's been made to sound like Sky's been awash with the Triamcinolone, and then there's unnecessary use of Tramadol in finishing bottles, so in seeking to deflect attention to Wiggo or Brailsford Froome's responses seems to cast him as being totally naive, complacent enough not to bother mentioning it before, or just cynically acting like he's now the team prefect and diverting attention away from his own person towards someone who's no longer with the team irrespective of the potential for making the situation worse.

Brailsford's been a surprising fumbler througout though so he should go just for coming across like a shifty dickbag.