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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 The riders demanded the invite to the Tour was rescinded as they didn't want that kind of stress during a highly stressful race.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.