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Well... reasonable to an extent. He picked on her for a technicality. Emotional support? We don't check for doping, not even for mechanical doping. Yet we'll point out a potential emotional support as a disqualifying issue? Nah, he's lost all perspective. Also, his "explanation" of harvesting wind power was pretty weird. Who carries an umbrella for a bikepacking race? Why did he have one with him? For shade? Not a chance. Look, I don't really care, it just didn't ring true that he came across as "quite reasonable", so I wrote this :).
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I listened to it yesterday. The umbrella episode sounded wierd. But I thought at the time that he had a point re Lael and the film crew on TD. It's one thing to ring your wife for a moan and some sympathy, or get support messages from twitter, but if you've got a crew specifically following you, it (for example) makes it safer for you to take risks that you might not otherwise take. I think it means that you are racing on different terms than everyone else. Plus Lael blatently cheated to win TABR but didn't seem to see it the way everyone else did.
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mtsdw
Worth a listen as it gives his side to the old, old accusations and also the business last year about Laels TD film. Comes across as quite reasonable. Think Salsa were shitty to him as well.