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What if he proves that the 'generous' limit is actually not enough in all cases? Will you accept that? Or is your mind made up due to Sky's previous form (whatever that is - no Sky rider has been sanctioned for a failed test apart from Tiernan-Locke, who's dodgy values were from before his time at Sky)?
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Unfortunately, I really don't think it's possible to retrospectively 'prove' your liver was inexplicably malfunctioning to a degree that it never has previously throughout your long career history of using an inhaler.
You can't replicate a tour in the lab, and I don't think the methodology or verification will ever be accepted by the UCI or WADA as it's not their lab or doctors doing it. For those reasons I think the training miles are just a theatre whilst Sky sees if the other side will, in the face of pressure from race organisers and fans outraged by the prospect of yet more empty podium spaces, blink first and let them off with a slap on the wrist...
But you never know. Maybe there's a phantom twin or even an actual physiological explanation that isn't just retrospectively dreamed up and shoehorned into a special lab session to suit the narrative... personally I think the simplest explanation will be the real one.
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Of course he went over the limit-deliberately or not. several sports scientists have said that the current limit is very generous and, that if it weren't the huge number of athletes using salbutamol means this scenario would happen far more often. Three riders in a decade? Two of whom were dodgy fuckers anyway...
With SKY's previous form do you think that if Froome got a respiratory infection on a critical stage of a grand tour that they would a) accept he's ill and stands to lose the GC competition the next day or B) Nebulise the shit out of some salbutamol knowing the limit is set pretty high in the hope that he just doesn't get popped, but that if he does the nature of the substance and their status in the sport will make it easy to beg off.
Opinions/arseholes etc but my money is on B before any fucking freak kidney episodes.