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I am a supporter of clean cycling - not of any team.JimmyFingers said:Well if you are a supporter of Sky then you do a very good job of hiding it.
And I addressed that by saying the 'fans' have lost faith in the system.JimmyFingers said:I think I have addressed your second point really. Clearly clean riders won't like being viewed as a dopers, and the problem is there's no real way of proving your not. This a good quote for JV:
That is what is letting clean riders down - and what they should be angry at.
Don't care about Sky, don't care about other posters views.JimmyFingers said:He also talks about 'connecting-the-dots', that association with anyone with a suspicious past automatically taints you. I know from engaging people here exactly what he means: assertions are made, theories formed, only to be changed and re-formed as different scenarios unfold on the road. At first Sky were doping like US Postal, then they were doping to lose weight, then they were doping just enough to be better than everyone else but not so their numbers would be excessive, then it was a designer drug that no-one knew about but only they could afford, then it was state-sponsored doping like east Germany and the entire British team were guilty of it, then it was doper's fatigue.
The accusations keep twisting and changing. TheHog made an assertion recently that Froome would have his last blood bag on the rest day and rally and still make the podium. He asked people to mark it and remind him of it. It hasn't come to past but no doubt there are further explanations why, more twists, more theories. Suspicion of doping is like a particularly agile, fast chicken: once it is out it's a real ****** to catch and get back inside.
Thats not true.JimmyFingers said:Cycling's past and its fans place the onus of proof on the riders, but here is a rider saying he can't prove it, so why should he try? Whatever information is released there will be a way of twisting it again, perpetuatating the innuedo, the debate, the snide remarks. I hope perhaps you can see that.
(Most) Fans want a clean(ish) sport - it is the anti-doping system run by the UCI that people have lost faith in.
Thats why Talansky cannot prove it - we do not trust the results.
Which is where any anger should be directed at - including yours (if you have any) about Sky.
Thats the point.