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thinking about whether it would be fair to strip Froome of his title today I keep coming back to the fact that Sky's public image is one of not just meticulous preparation-but also in the true British style-of publicly stating that they will push the rules to their limits in order to get every iota of advantage possible.
In such a case, surpassing what by all accounts is already quite a high clinical limit for a known restricted substance is incredibly amateur-which goes against their PR shpiel-or incredibly calculated-which corresponds to pushing the limits on the rules.
Making it worse is that despite saying his health was worsening Stage 18 is when he took a chunk out of Nibali, which doesn't sit with that narrative.
Going on this and recent precedents for similar cases I really don't think we'll be seeing a Tour-Vuelta-Giro slam from Froome/Sky this year...