Ventoux Boar said:I'm forensically challenged... Here's the podcast I was referring to: 15 minutes in. Walsh retells the tale of Richard Freeman, Sky Dr, reviewing Froome's pre-Vuelta data for irregularities.
The two events that we know of provoking Sky to review passports are JTL's charge, and Froome's 2011 Vuelta.
So Sky were able to check Froome's pre-Vuelta passport data internally and do 'every possible check' available, saw nothing untoward despite his being riddled with Bilharzia for 1.5-2.5 years, missed JTL because he didn't have data, ie according to Sky they couldn't have known any earlier than they did about JTL, but despite the fact that a 'panel of experts' would not have found out about JTL any earlier, they saw it necessary to hire a 'panel of experts' for future internal tests. And now they will hire a second panel of experts to explain the anomaly which the first panel of experts highlighted (and which would presumably have been missed by the same checks they did on Froome's data in 2011). OK