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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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the training miles are just a theatre
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personally I think the simplest explanation will be the real one.
Which is that Froome took his usual dose of salbutamol, and his body didn't process it before his test. There's already evidence in the public domain that shows this is possible.
The whole point of a Grand Tour is that it pushes your body to it's limits, maybe one of the things that degrades is the body's ability to process salbutamol.
Who knows, but to see this as some part of a larger doping conspiracy is ridiculous - it's salbutamol, not EPO or HGH or CERA or some cutting edge gene therapy, an easily detected substance, which has virtually no performance enhancement and was taken by someone who knew he was going to be tested.
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simplest explanation will be the real one
Sky’s saving the best for last, as it were.
“He’s an alien”
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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)?