It is behind a paywall but the whole of the back page of the Times sports supplement today was given over to Walsh writing about Froome. Basically he knows people say his credibility is down because he supports Froome but these critics, you see, they base their judgements on prejudice and thin air - they all have no evidence whatsoever.
Not stated but the unwritten text is - the critics are just people bitten by being fans of Lance for so long and now judging Froome without any evidence because they are still sore.
So why does Walsh still think Froome's clean. Two reasons - (i) no evidence whatsoever that he doped and (ii) Dave Millar told him Froome was the real deal.
Now (in a parallel world) one could imagine Millar might have credibility and be unbiased. He doped (true), confesed (no he did not), told the authorities all about everything(no he did not), helped the authorities all he could to trap those who supported him doping and supplied him (no he did not, just like Femke, he was an evil mastermind all on his own), apologised to his teammates who he had stated were bonkers or some such (no he pretended he had never ever spoken to the press about them, destroying their credibility by playing "I am the fair anglo-saxon" card), became rider representative at WADA (true - but just look at who suported his application !) helping that highly effective body WADA deal with PED abuse in the sport (they are useless and welcome all who might be motivated to assist in selling their PR lie - yes we had it in this article - the blood passport works - too hard to ever be beaten) and low and behold Millar has now been appointed by BC to head up their program on young rider education (true).
Let's just pause a second and pull that last one apart. Shane Sutton personally appointed Millar. Again - at first sight you could say no higher endorsement could be possible. But hold on, this is the same "personal coach" of Sir Brad, who Wiggo refers to as a second dad, who told Parliament, "cross my heart and hope to die" A) he had no idea what the medical team were prescribing his star rider on the eve of the Tour, several times and b) who had no idea what was in the jiffy bag and c) in all his career had never encoutned PEDs being used by a competitor or in connection with any manager or support staff.
Now that might be quite good enough for the new Chairman of BC and the new head-hunted manager of human resources and even the new CEO, because collectively, they seem to have exactly the same amount of interest in fiding out about nefarious goings on at BC that Cookson did, but to anyone with even half a weather eye open to the history of the sport and to rider-coach relationships, it holds about as much credibility as being told by Ronnie Kray that he never bribed a policeman. Even the hypocricy of having someone who doped, did two years, had to give one medal back because "I only did it once" and so still holds his silver medal from the year before, then made it rich becasue he kept the omerta as to why Sir Dave Brailsford just happened to be having dinner with him at the time of his bust and now runs around selling days out to idiots with too much money to burn "cum ride with Dave and see the polish on my Masser" tell young riders doping obviously doesn't pay - just look at me ! Errrrrrr.......................
And then hold on a moment Mr Walsh.....not sooo fast there................this Millar chap...........apart from having a very strong vested interest in promoting himself as the patron saint of anti-doping - to cancel out that one of his past sins got exposed ..........isn't his sister "head of winning behaviours" at where is it ? I need to do some serious research .............can't be a conflict of interest can it .................where does she work.........who is she very friendly with..........whatisname.................well blow me down with a feather - it is Team Sky.
Oh and hte lack of evidence ..........what we all see before our eyes - Ventoux 2013 and the rest - well, I never reaslied it before but Froome thrashes those times the dopers like Pantani and Lance did up the mountains because he is a physical outlier. And how did he work that out, who was the physiological expert who confirmed this to him - well it is St David again, the talents of the man know no bounds, take a bow St David, BC should promote you as soon as they can.
So David Walsh tells us we are wrong and he is right becasue St David told him..................Yeah. And they accuse some in the clinic of bending facts to suit a prejudiced narrative.
It is worth the money to keep the paper just for the historic record.
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