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Yeah, and that interview is infused with that bitterness. I'm not saying he's wrong but presents opinion as fact, admit the conclusions he draws are based on instinct, bemoans the fact Deignan and Roche haven't turned whistleblowers fancifully and says Wiggins is 'holed below the waterline' and that he should lose his Tour win. There's a shit ton of schedenfraude in that interview, I just really don't like him, and that is an opinion formed over several years and some unpleasant interactions on Twitter.
That goes for Vayer and Tucker too.
Despite Kimmage trying to paint it some other way, there remains no smoking gun as of yet.
I wonder what Tiernan-Locke makes of it all. Of course he has always w#maintained his innocence, and his doping was on another team but the most he has said about Sky is that he was offered tramadol. Let's remind ourselves that this isn't just Team Sky, its British cycling too, so what Kimmage is saying about the road team directly reflects onto the track program and the success there. Wiggins had 3 TUEs in a very, very long career filled with incredible success, was he doping throughout? Kimmage has decided he started in 2009 while he was a Garmin and mentions his attitude after being kicked off the Tour with Confidis in 2007 and then suddenly it changes. Vaughters has always maintained that Wiggins rode clean at Garmin and believed his Sky performances were clean.
Basically its still murky as fuck.
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Do you know the story behind this? Kimmage was going to be embedded with Sky at the Tour in 2011. Brailsford asked that he attend a training camp first in order to get to know people, understand how the team worked etc. At this camp, Kimmage was interrogating people, burst in on Wiggins whilst he was having a massage, and generally putting noses out of joint. The riders demanded the invite to the Tour was rescinded as they didn't want that kind of stress during a highly stressful race. Kimmage took personal offence, which was compounded when David Walsh was embedded with the team at the Tour in 2013.