My sympathy for Brailsford on this matter went when he hired Sean Yates and came very close to hiring Neil Stephens (the only man implicated in both the Festina and Puerto scandals) as that was effectively him saying "this zero tolerance approach isn't worth shit".
Now it's come to bite him on the arse and his reaction is pathetic. The UCI tried this with a policy where anyone convicted of doping had to cough up a year's salary. As I understand it they accrued the grand total of SFr0 as it was completely unenforceable.
My sympathy for Brailsford on this matter went when he hired Sean Yates and came very close to hiring Neil Stephens (the only man implicated in both the Festina and Puerto scandals) as that was effectively him saying "this zero tolerance approach isn't worth shit".
Now it's come to bite him on the arse and his reaction is pathetic. The UCI tried this with a policy where anyone convicted of doping had to cough up a year's salary. As I understand it they accrued the grand total of SFr0 as it was completely unenforceable.