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hippy
Thought I'd check the Guardian to see if it carried any coverage of the recent racing, Tour of Catalunya and Ghent-Wevelgem and nada, just wall to wall articles about Wiggins and BC's woes.
I also checked the twitter feeds for all the most notorious anti-doping trolls: Vayer, Digger, Ross Tucker, Kimmage and a few others, to see if there was any outrage at a 37yo convicted doper dominantly winning the Tour of Catalunya or the Olympic Road race champion, who narrowly avoided a doping sanction in 2013, winning 3 semi-classics on the trot. Nothing, no mention of either apart from a tweet from Vayer celebrating GVA's win. There was a little chatter at the clinic but mostly it was Sky/Wiggins/Brailsford.
Now I'm not making accusations towards Valverde or GVA but those are the sort of performances the Twitter warriers take huge umbrage at....if the rider in question is wearing a Sky jersey. GVA's last twelve months is extraordinary and Valverde winning Catalunya despite a sanction of a minute in the TTT, taking three stage wins and even winning the sprint finish on the final stage against a very talented field at his age was also an amazing ride.
I never consider performance as proof, but the silence from Kiammage etal is deafening for two riders with very real shadows over them. It just stinks of double standards and you realise these people aren't objectively anti-doping, they pick their targets, likely due to personal bias and the amount of attention it will garner them.
Rant over