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The only person to marginalise Nicole Cooke, was Nicole Cooke. As the phrase goes, she could start an argument in an empty room (although I'd double check for signs of her father before declaring the room empty).
Emma Pooley is the latest to have her say;
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/mar/13/pooley-brailsford-british-cycling-fish-head
She's wrong though, a fish rots from the guts.
But I also find it ironic that Pooley has spoken up, as she benefitted from Sky's opaque selection process last year to get a, frankly, completely undeserved, slot on the Olympic road team. Dani King has far more of an axe to grind, but she's kept her own counsel.
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I think the bigger story than the naughty boys at the back of the team sky bus with a jiffy bag of fluimicil thing is how they treated the female olympic crew and their deveolopment-i.e not giving them equal access to equipment, training camps etc despite public funding, sending the person responsible for managing their training on little jaunts with pharmaceuticals for Team Sky, and also their attitude to binning someone like Jess Varnish or marginalising Nicole Cooke.
Pretty fucking shit behaviour towards athletes who sweat just as hard as the males for far less reward.