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scorch in reply to @deleted

You're one of the worst people to get into an argument with on this thread - and I do mean it in the most respectful way :) - but quotes like:

After all the scandals, from Shane Sutton saying that Team Sky gamed the TUE system, to the stock of Kenalog, Jiffy bags, lost medical records, the DCMS report, UKAD's investigation, testosterone deliveries, Tramadol use, and a win-at-all-cost culture, Froome’s ride could only lead us to ask questions.
The only people who really know (what happenned) are the same ones who got themselves into the salbutamol mess, and that affair lingers over Team Sky like a bad smell.

while she knows perfectly well that if the salbutamol case was not made public (which it should not have been), Froome's attack would not have anything to do with 'bad smell', only goes to show she's taking the CN side of things, which is anti-Froome.

And again, I'm fine with CN openly talking shit about Sky and Froome, after all it's just journalism, but to get the same thing from an ex-rider is surprising - in a bad way.

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deleted in reply to @scorch

ha. Yes, like a dog with a bone, I know...

For all that, the quotation is a summary of stuff that's already in the public domain and informs people's view of Froome/Sky. I don't think it's particularly inflammatory to mention it in an opinion piece that specifically discusses Froome's stage 19 performance and all the polemic about it. The phrase lingers like a bad smell is pretty apt too-the Salbutamol affair is all anyone has talked about since it was leaked-in the absence of Sky publicly explaining what their defense is, again, people will assume the worst.

Anyway, make of it what you will-I didn't read it as particularly anti Froome, and I really couldn't care either way if it is or isn't, I just don't understand why people are so upset about it.

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