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Let’s not forget that we’d know none of this if the Russians hasn’t leaked the details on TUEs, to divert attention away from their state sanctioned doping program.
Team Sky have always been shit at PR, Brailsford obviously fancies himself as some hot shot PR specialist, but it’s always toe curlingly embarrassing when they try and be upbeat. I think any sports organisation suffers to credible when they have the spotlight on them, mainly because elite sport is hard and people get trampled and discarded in the pursuit of wins.
But whatever you think of how the team have handled this, the fact remains that no evidence of wrongdoing has been established and there are no doping violations to answer.
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there are no doping violations to answer
Questions remain over the validity of the medical evidence submitted to the TUEC. If Wiggins and his doctors, either together or separately, deliberately created a false narrative about his alleged condition and its treatment in order to steer the TUEC towards granting a TUE for the drugs he wanted rather than the least performance enhancing alternative which would have provided acceptable disease management, then an anti-doping violation has occurred even though he never took anything that wasn't covered by a TUE.
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It's not that binary, is it.
What I'm saying, if you read it again, is the opposite of how you're trying to read it really.
He's clearly had a whole load of success which is almost certainly genuine. So why have they (both Wiggins himself and Team Sky) cocked this episode up so spectacularly, and given the whole affair such an air of suspicion when the whole thing, if legitimate, could have been done in a way which doesn't seem so suspect?
Suggesting that Sky and Wiggo have covered themselves in shit isn't the same as pointing fingers and shouting "cheat". But if you think they've emerged from this with all their credibility intact then there's probably no point even trying to engage in a conversation about it.