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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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It’s professional sport, there are grey areas and teams exploit them. If you don’t like it, walk away.
Applying for a TUE is not cheating, the UCI have to approve it. I don’t think Wiggins cheated, clearly I wasn’t there, but I think they realised they could eliminate his allergy issues with one injection before his major objective of the year, applied for it and had it granted. As so many teams and riders were exploiting this grey area the UCI sought to close it down. That’s how the sport works. Look at Lotto-Soudal and their aero gel at the Dauphine, they saw a grey area to exploit and tried it. The UCI closed that loophole too.
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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.