This is farcical but true. Walsh didn't even go in with an open mind. He went in believing. And here is an example. He believes in jv. He believed wiggins was clean in 09...he then thought it wasn't a big leap for wiggins to win in 2012....ergo sky are clean.
Few examples. He said that sky are clean because they are bad In classics! He said it's too difficult logistically to dope in a GT. He said wiggins might not necessarily have known for certain from his former Garmin teammates about lance....yet later said Floyd should have known in 02 when he joined USP that lance was doping. Floyd wasn't sure until he got on the team what was going on.
Walsh never once asked about the asthma and why he had never been told. Never asked to see vo2, never asked to see blood values. He spent half of a two thousand word article, which had the headline why froome is clean, telling us about Brailsford taking an iPhone picture, and pineapple flavored water. He said froome always had talent. Rubbish. Absolute tripe.
When he was going to interview wiggins, he had to be reminded of the lance love in and his comments on Floyd. This should have been first because it's so damning. Why would a clean rider say this stuff?
In 99 himself and pelkey said this is a farce because the average speeds are faster than last year when we know they were doping...in 07 he said ac is definitely doping because he's going faster than la ever did.
Dario cioni...when asked why he wasn't bothered if he might have doped? He said it's not worth ruining someone's life when he's not high up at sky. Last year he dismissed speeds and watts etc as a cottage industry. This year with nibali he was back citing it and sports of science guys.
Simple fact is this: sky are following their plan to the hilt. Wine and dine a select few journos, let them stay at hotels, collect them, impress them...it's been their Plan all along. Ironically USP did the same.
Walsh tells us it's down to marginal gains. Yet accepts he doesn't know how other teams prepare, thus negating the very definition of then being gains.
Re: wiggins it was said there was a spike in 09 values, Walsh said it wasn't a spike but a small increase! Said he'd get an independent haemogologist to view the data. He never did.
To anyone who says he went in with an open mind...rubbish. He went in to find ways of showing his conclusion to be correct. It was the opposite of investigation with an open mind.
By the way, there are numerous chapters about lance and his transformation being a red flag...regardless of whether you like or hate lance, how can anyone not agree that froome's transformation was far more dramatic...
I think Walsh has disgraced himself and it's unfortunate because like many others who shamed themselves with lance, this will be what he's remembered for when it all goes belly up.
Note: typed this from a phone with predictive text so please save the grammar police.