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Yes, but that's football, nobody gives a rats ass about doping and players medical history......in cycling we insist on knowing and analysing every single minute detail about our protagonists medical history from birth.
CTQ said:Merckx index said:Parker said:Here's an interview after the TT at the 2008 Tour: https://youtu.be/NttM0p8Q_yU?t=255
Froome's heavy coughing clearly shows he has some breathing issue. If he DS never noticed this he can't have been paying much attention.
Or maybe he did pay attention, but wasn't told it was asthma. From Lowe's article:
when Froome gave a rather chesty interview following his Tour de Romandie win in 2013, Michelle Cound assured her followers that her man was fit and healthy, claiming that “hard effort and cold air always makes him cough a bit.”
Cound never mentioned the asthma that, duh, might have been a better explanation.
In fact, hard effort and cold air could indeed exacerbate asthma symptoms, but if that was the case, why not say so? And while I can think of reasons why she, they, wouldn't want to own up to it, why did Froome change his mind about making the condition public a year later?
analogy with David Beckham ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1230404/David-Beckhams-biggest-secret-revealed-star-admits-Asthma.html
'It's never came out [until now] because I've had no reason to talk about it, but that's just me.'
Yes, but that's football, nobody gives a rats ass about doping and players medical history......in cycling we insist on knowing and analysing every single minute detail about our protagonists medical history from birth.