Dear Wiggo said:
In fact no.
1. They were going to investigate Leinders.
2. There was no outcome from the "investigation" - everything above board and tip top. DB could have said this the same day he announced there would be an investigation.
3. Leinders was not dismissed per se, his contract was not renewed.
#3 - I wouldn't hang my hat there, friend. The difference between being dismissed and not having your contract renewed is a technicality. It means management doesn't have to pay damages or unemployment, but Leinders didn't get any more paychecks either way. Unemployed is unemployed.
Frankly, given that Leinders could come back and sue for unfair dismissal for any number of reasons - I'm not surprised they (mgmt) would take the easy way out. It's not like Leinders had his local chapter of WADA, or the AG office, go after him for something and dug up evidence. He would have a lot of he-said-she-said wiggle room.
Either way, it looks like Sky listened to the Clinic critics, and got rid of Leinders. So how do we justify still criticizing them for Leinders?
Where I will go along with MJM, is that if they don't pop Yates, they are going to have to explain it and that will change their tune. They no longer have a choice, I think. Don't see how they can avoid a published positive. I think Brailsford is being a twit, and both setting the bar so high that his people are probably not being honest with him, but also setting it so high he ultimately can't be honest with the fans, because 100% clean would make it hard to hire anybody involved in the sport more than 2 years. And, possibly difficult to hire anybody from any Olympic level sport from the past 20 years. Narrows the labor pool a bit.
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