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The performance that day was unbelievable in the context it must be viewed in. 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.
I try not to be cynical about the sport but its history of morals and ethics hasn’t been great, so when you see simple questions from government committees or the cycling media avoided by the likes of Team Sky and their management, there's little benefit of the doubt that can be applied.
Ask me what I think of the last three weeks and I'll say I honestly don't know what happened. The only people who really know are the same ones who got themselves into the salbutamol mess, and that affair lingers over Team Sky like a bad smell. The data, the miraculous recovery, and the answers you all seek are with them.
Sure, RCS got the media coverage they craved by having Froome at the race but that came at the expense of their own credibility and incurred the wrath of many. Yates restored a lot of faith in the sport with his ride, as did Tom Dumoulin and even the guys who fell apart, because they all seemed normal in the light of a tough route.
Stage 19 ended all that with the nuances of all the previous Team Sky mishaps and the debate as to whether Froome should have been on the start line at all. That's why the Tour de France probably won't want Froome at their race, as the fallout might just be waiting to happen.
After Lance Armstrong, the Tour organisers probably aren't willing take such a risk but the Giro has, and we’ve either witnessed a script straight out of Hollywood or we are being taken for mugs again and the story, as it did with Armstrong’s, will appear in an episode of South Park. I just hope it's not the latter.