BroDeal said:
The key point here is that Wigans goes out of his way to talk about hypocrites. He clearly does not want to be seen as one. And then he refuses to diss Vino. He brings Vino up on his own to let his fellow riders know that he is a stand up guy who won't spit in the soup.
Actually he is only doing precisely what almost everybody here was demanding the kid from RadioShack do last week.
Wiggins has two choices if he wants to be consistent. Firstly, he could turn himself into a Greg Lemond type farse and do a speech against doping at every race, become judge and jury and attack every rider even suspected of doping, putting him at war with half the peloton and all the big names like Armstrong.
Now, though you would love that, it's just not practical, would be hugely distracting and would make him very unpopular with the public before it even got to the riders. It's just not his job to do that, nor should it be, and he would hate all the attention.
So, what do you do to be a consistent anti doper? You lead by example and are known for your clean practises, but are careful not to be a hypocrite - which means not saying Vino should not be allowed to race but are then seen chatting happily to Basso and Millar in the peloton.
I don't know why some people hate Wiggins. He's precisely the type of person who would not be seen dead with a foundation named after him. He hates talking about his gold medals and says he does not want to "live off" them, and is obviously embarrassed by all the promotional and sponsorship stuff for the team. He has two loves in life - cycling and playing the guitar, and not all the celebrity bullsh*t.
Surely this is a man right up your street?