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Only the gullible believed Sky’s bullshit about being different to other teams and doing things the right way. They showed their true colours when they hired the likes of Scott Sunderland, Sean Yates and Brian Nygard. It’s clear they exploit the grey areas in the rules, and have taken advantage of the growing medicalisation of the sport. But what they do is within the rules of the sport as far as we can tell.
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Your stance on this is alternately to dismiss critics of Sky or disbelievers as irrational and unsubstantiated, yet when pointed out it's based on very real events such as 'accidental' steroid patch orders or hiring ex dopers you flip and instead dismiss anyone who believed they were operating true to their word by pointing to the exact same happenings.
But what they do is within the rules of the sport as far as we can tell.
Yes, as far as we can tell, and supported by quite a few disclosures now, Sky can be seen to be doing more than exploiting grey areas and it's not irrational or illogical to think so. Getting TUEs for riders who don't require them is cheating. Are you telling me you believe Wiggo needed cortisone injections? If so you're the gullible one.
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You can't dismiss all of it as irrationality unless you ignore the fact that Sky's own actions and PR happenings have greatly contributed to the dialogue around their performances and the wider disbelief that they operate above board.
Freeman's managed to transform himself into the Wallace and Gromit of doping through accidental orders of steroid patches and losing his laptop-for him to refuse to appear in front of a committee and then roll out a book about how great he is is fucking surreal.