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He's not making friends
Cyclingnews approached Dave Brailsford for comment outside the Team Sky bus and for a rare moment at this Tour he appeared willing to talk as Eurosport raised their cameras. However, the excitement was short-lived.
When Cyclingnews and a second journalist from another respected publication indicated that they wanted to be party to the Team Sky principal’s musings, Brailsford made clear, and in no uncertain terms, that he would not only refuse to answer our questions but that we were not allowed to record the Eurosport interview. The interchange ended when Cyclingnews asked if we could record the piece. “No,” replied Brailsford. “Hey, I’m fucking telling you now,” he added.
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Given the comments on Cyclingnews stories, that pass moderation, are the editorial staff of that website surprised they don't get cooperation?
They did a hatchet job on Brailsford too, didn't they? Then express indignation when he refuses to speak to them. The poor wee lambs.
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A couple of minutes in the cyclingnews forums and I feel dirty. It's juvenile, incredibly partisan and distinctly anti-Sky. More over the moderation team are largely of the same ilk and posters that go against the over-riding 'everyone is doping' narrative are heavily censured and banned, while really unpleasant characters that troll regularly are free to bully and mock. It really is a cesspit. That nugget about Porte comes from there.
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And lots of UK journalists getting vexed about this.
I don't want to come across as a Sky apologist, but is anyone really surprised that the management at Sky don't want to be accommodating to the press? In past years they've been remarkably open, yet all they've been asked about over and over and over, is whether they are clean or not. Everything they say is analysed and twisted to suit a narrative, so it's no surprise, to me at least, that they've decided to not engage this year.
As an example, look at the Telegraph today. In it, the headline says that Froome denies his collision with Aru. If you actually read the article he clearly says it happened but it was accidental, yet the headline is twisted to fit a narrative.