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MrSweary
Yes the leak. It was quite the coup for the Guardian and there has been a distinct shift in their cycling reporting ever since, presumably recognising the negative coverage drove traffic so Sean Ingle and William Fotheringham have been beating the anti-Froome drum with a fervour. Also with none of the recent articles have they had the courage to open the comment section.
As a journalist you will always run with a leak like that, Ingle justified breaking the story by saying if he didn't something like the AAF may have stayed secret so it is in the public interest, and Fotheringham in his latest dour op-ed justified it by saying cycling's past means no-one deserves to be able to keep secrets in the sport.
Maybe they are right, but this shitstorm at the moment is doing no-one any favours apart from the press. Froome has become their Trump.