Aguirre said:
I'm not, more than 25 years watching cycling. Tell me examples he played dirty. and don't come with typical Evans's bike problem in sierra nevada 2009 or contador/valverde alliance in dauphine.
More, he is rather the victim, everbody pretends eliminate him in grand tours.
The reference is to the Clinic matters.
If you ignore those, which I appreciate for some is very hard, then yes, Valverde has usually been pretty solid on the whole 'fair play on the bike' thing. The guy practically stopped to let Szmyd take the stage he'd promised him in 2009.
For me, this is only galling because Sky made such a big deal of Movistar being bad guys for doing the same thing back in March. Quick Step were the victims then; they got their 'revenge' when Valverde crashed in Catalunya and they pushed the pace to distance him. No complaints from Movistar on that occasion.
The Paris-Nice incident wasn't really any of Sky's business (they weren't really affected by it other than being helped by their main GC rival being eliminated) but they stuck their noses in to it, which is probably what makes Movistar so upset by today.