Yeah from reading it Sky come out of it looking good IMO, genuine concern for a rider's well-being and tried to do the right thing by him. He did it independently, was caught, they thought he was doping they find it to be vitamins and decided the mental state of the rider was such that exposing it would have been detrimental to the rider.
He was riding for a domestic Italian team the 2 years before he joined Sky so looks like he was introduced to the woo-woo 'recovery' methods Italian teams seem to love.
The irony of this story is it adds fuel to fire of Sky mass-doping without any definitive connection to a PED of any kind. He was even shopped to the team by another rider. 'Cover up' is a fucking stretch but it fits the media's narrative.
Yeah from reading it Sky come out of it looking good IMO, genuine concern for a rider's well-being and tried to do the right thing by him. He did it independently, was caught, they thought he was doping they find it to be vitamins and decided the mental state of the rider was such that exposing it would have been detrimental to the rider.