http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cookson-rider-fatigue-at-tour-de-france-shows-doping-controls-work/
Well, things don't add up do they. It just sounds more like a another plea to believe the new clean narrative. Just be a belieber, please, everyone, I beg you.
Rider fatigue. okay, that can be a symptom of clean.
Luca Paolini busted for cocaine = transparency and proof of testing.
Nope, it's not, not even combined with rider fatigue, it isn't, sorry we know about scapegoats. But it's something to say:
“I think we saw riders during the last Tour de France were very tired and one of the causes, in my opinion, is the increased efficiency of doping controls,” Cookson said during an IOC session in Kuala Lumpur. “No one likes to see someone exhausted, but I think that this is a demonstration that we have constantly tightened the meshes of doping controls."
How about how clean Froome equals or beats known doper times - present and past. Just publish the test results of stage 20 (if they did them). Hold the testers and doping control mesh tighteners accountable. Be accountable yourself, please, not so...vague and wishy/hopeful that this pig flies.
Publish in a timely way, not months or years later when time has been taken to work it all out behind closed doors, by then, it's not very transparent or truthful. Hey, it didn't take long for Paolini to be busted and booted.
Otherwise, lots of suspicion also falls back on how things played out with Astana and Kreuziger over the past year or two. Why is Astana still a team riding in the peloton? Why was the Kreuziger case dropped suddenly? Why is he riding in the 2015 TdF - why, for that matter are Nibali and Astana? Why are you sidestepping, Cookson, and why do your hands appear tied behind your back while attempting to move forward with a new a brighter narrative for cycling?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/cookson-i-dont-want-a-war-with-aso-but-cycling-must-reform/
sidestepping
hands tied
He pleads with us to believe the new and stronger global narrative. But it's 1) hard to quantify and 2) ASO get in the way. Says Cookson, I'm trying, so have faith in me for now:
BC:
What we’re trying to do is have a stronger global narrative to the sport. We want to enhance the development and the pathways so that the teams can offer more sustainable returns to their sponsors and investors. Those things are hard to quantify. ASO are in a great position and they have a great series of events and many of those events that they’re developing would love to be part of the WorldTour as well but they should have an interest in making the WorldTour reforms work as well as anyone else.
People must have this in mind when they launched allegations and aspersions on any rider and any team.”
Well, anyway...